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Sunday, July 17, 2011

A Honduran station director is killed over his presidential support

gun 26-year old Radio Joconguera station manager Nery Jeremias Orellana called another station to say he would participate in a regional meeting of community radio stations. That was one recent morning, and he never arrived at that meeting. Orellana was stopped on his motorcycle and shot in the head, left for dead on the side of the road. He was taken to an area hospital, where he died of his injuries. The station is known for covering civil rights issues. The group Reporters Without Borders released a statement decrying Orellana's murder, saying he worked with civil society organizations and his work made him "liable to be a target for violence." Orellana was also a member of FARP, an government opposition organization. Orellana's death now makes three journalists killed in Honduras this year, and the 12th murder of a journalist in 18 months. All of those murders remain unsolved crimes.

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