Honduras

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WHEREAS the political conflict before, during and after June 28, the day President Manuel Zelaya was overthrown in a coup, brought innumerable abuses against the freedom of the media and journalists to inform society adequately WHEREAS before June 28, President Zelaya contributed to the hostile media climate with intimidating and aggressive measures against independent media outlets that were reporting about political abuses that violated the country´s laws WHEREAS on June 28 and for months afterwards the new government suspended constitutional guarantees, permitting the closures of media outlets and limits on information and other indispensible freedoms WHEREAS a general climate of confrontation developed among battling political groups that degenerated into attacks, threats and intimidation, even provoking some journalists to take extraordinary measures to protect their families and colleagues. THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE IAPA RESOLVES to strongly condemn the suspension of constitutional guarantees and other general restrictions that demonstrated a lack of respect for press freedom by the closing of media outlets and continuing periodic restrictions against the media to express a similar condemnation of the attacks that the two batting groups provoked, causing the media and journalists to be attacked for expressing their opinions and for reporting according to their editorial criteria, indispensible values that support press freedom to call on the antagonistic groups to ensure that any solution to the current political crisis has as a goal the fundamental principles of press freedom, ensuring the media can operate freely and fulfill the constitutional guarantee t that upholds the public´s right to be informed.

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