Organization Demands Honduras President Act on Journalist Murders

[Jeff Dunsavage]

The Board of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers, meeting in Düsseldorf, Germany, on 7 June 2010, called on the President of Honduras, Porfirio Lobo, to decisively act to resolve the murders of journalists in the country. Six journalists have been killed in Honduras in just ovfer a month, making the small Central American country one of the deadliest places for journalists worldwide in 2010.