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Military repress protest of the press
posted on: Dec 14 2011 7:12 by RDugey. Viewed 26 times.
Honduran military quelled with tear gas canisters over 100 journalists protested Tuesday against the presidential House of Honduras, for the murder of 17 journalists in the past two years.
The attack came from a few hundred officers of the guard of honour presidential against members of a grouping called "Journalists for life and freedom of expression", most of them women, when they agglomerated in the vicinity of the House of Government, in the East of the capital.
Journalists, however, held the protest after the release of gases that produced them Visual problems and breathing.
No order
the Secretary of communications of the President, Miguel Angel Bonilla, came out to investigate the incident and told participants that "President Porfirio Lobo has not any order of any kind of repression".
During the March, demonstrators carried a coffin u000aas symbol of the murder of 17 members from 2010, the last attack on 6 December, when two men fired against light peace.
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