Honduras
Honduras radio journalists dealt further blow to freedom of expression - 27 October 2009
Three programmes have been cancelled by a popular radio station, because their broadcasts 'failed to promote peace' and 'discredited' the electoral process.Honduras must allow journalists to broadcast freely - 9 October 2009
The de facto Honduran authorities must allow journalists to broadcast as negotiations over the country's political future continue, Amnesty International has said.Journalists in Honduras: "They know who we are" - 30 September 2009
Marvin Ortiz, a journalist with Radio Globo in Honduras, talks to Amnesty International about how the station was forcibly and violently shut down in a joint police and military operation.Increased abuses in Honduras given green light by Executive Decree - 30 September 2009
Honduran de facto president Roberto Micheletti urged to rescind a decree that provides sweeping new powers of detention to the police, bans all public meetings and imposes a 45 day curfew.Executive Decree gives green light to increased abuses in Honduras - 29 September 2009
Honduran de facto president Roberto Micheletti must rescind a decree that provides sweeping new powers of detention to the police, bans all public meetings and imposes a 45 day curfew, Amnesty International said today.Several reported dead in Honduras turmoil - 25 September 2009
Five people are reported to have been killed during a week of violent political unrest in Honduras.Honduras: Sharp rise in police beatings, mass arrests and harassment of activists - 23 September 2009
Amnesty International today denounced a sharp rise in police beatings, mass arrests of demonstrators and intimidation of human rights defenders in Honduras since the June coup d’état and warned that fundamental rights and the rule of law in the Central American nation are in grave jeopardy.Beatings and detentions follow Honduras demonstrations - 24 September 2009
Amnesty International has received continuing reports of numerous demonstrators being beaten by police and some several hundred detained across Tegucigalpa, the capital city of Honduras.
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Human rights defenders and trade unionists were attacked and threatened throughout the year. In most cases the perpetrators of attacks and threats were not held accountable.