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Judi Lynn

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Thu Oct 22, 2015, 05:03 PM Oct 2015

Travel ban prevents journalist from attending hearing on his case

Travel ban prevents journalist from attending hearing on his case
Published on Wednesday 21 October 2015

Radio Globo y TV presenter Julio Ernesto Alvarado, the target of government harassment and abusive judicial decisions in a defamation suit, was prevented from flying to Washington yesterday to attend an Inter-American Commission on Human Rights hearing on his case.

Honduran immigration officials at Tegucigalpa’s international airport prohibited Alvarado from leaving the country on the grounds that his passport was stolen in the 1970s by a dangerous individual who committed several crimes including a murder.

The immigration officials added that if Alvarado wanted more information about this matter, he would have to go to San Pedro Sula, a city four hours by road from Tegucigalpa, in order to ask the judicial authorities there.

“We condemn the Honduran government’s manoeuvres, which must not be allowed to prevent this journalist from testifying and pleading his case before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR),” said Emmanuel Colombié, the head of the Reporters Without Borders Latin America desk.

“Julio Ernesto Alvarado has been the victim of judicial persecution since 2013 and has now exhausted all possibilities of legal recourse in Honduras despite the fact that, as a precautionary measure, the IACHR had asked the Honduran authorities to suspend the proceedings while it examines the case.”


More:
http://en.rsf.org/honduras-travel-ban-prevents-journalist-21-10-2015,48467.html

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