Honduras - Travel ban prevents journalist from attending hearing on his case

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Radio Globo y TV presenter Julio Ernesto Alvarado, the target of government harassment and abusive judicial decisions in a defamation suit, was prevented from flying to Washington yesterday to attend an Inter-American Commission on Human Rights hearing on his case. Honduran immigration officials at Tegucigalpa's international airport prohibited Alvarado from leaving the country on the grounds that his passport was stolen in the 1970s by a dangerous individual who committed several crimes (...)

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