our word in the political crisis:
Radio Progress and Research Team and Communication ERIC Reflection of the Society of Jesus in Honduras.
Saturday August 15, 2009
HELP!
Radio Progreso was besieged by an army contingent the day of the bloodless coup. At gunpoint and without a warrant, the military broke into our facilities and forced us to silence our equipment.
On Friday, August 14, our radio dispatched two of its reporters to cover the demonstration that was organized resistance against the city of Choloma, between San Pedro Sula and Puerto Cortes on the north Atlantic Honduras. Progressive Radio covered the event when the marchers were savagely attacked by police contingents.
At noon, our reporter Gustavo Cardoza transmitting the news about the tear gas, the arrests, the beatings that police violated left and right demonstrators. Suddenly, Gustavo Cardoza said that a police officer pointing his weapon and immediately reported that other police officers came upon him. Our reporter tried to run, and told them he was a reporter for Radio Progreso. It was then that we heard their cries and blows our reporter was receiving.
The transmission of our reporter was abruptly suspended. The police kicked him, paid him back, stomach, put him to a vehicle, laid him face down and beat him along the way kicking gave the butt of the rifle while the worst abused words and insults.
Luckily, the bar association in resistance to the coup and the Association of Judges for Democracy acted promptly and diligently, and although some of them were jostled and insulted, ensured that the end of the day the police release to us reporter and other protesters captured and tortured.
We affirm to the world of our helplessness. We raise our voice, our cry to the human rights organizations the international community, because here all sectors that oppose the de facto regime are exposed to barbarism, while state agencies responsible for ensuring justice and human rights rather than protect, point your finger to exterminate us. People of the world, not leave us alone!
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