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Honduran journalist (died 2020)

David Romero Ellner (died 18 July 2020) was a Honduran journalist, lawyer and politician. He was a Liberal party congressman and formerly mayor of Tegucigalpa. He was director of Radio Globo and Globo TV. He was known for his investigations into corruption in the country.

He died on 18 July 2020, from COVID-19 that he contracted in prison during the COVID-19 pandemic in Honduras. Earlier in 2020, CPJ and 190 other agencies urged world leaders to release all journalists imprisoned for their work due to the threat of incurring COVID-19 in prison.

Convictions

In 2002, Romero Ellner was charged with raping his daughter. On 30 July 2002 he was stripped of his parliamentary immunity and office. In 2004, he pleaded guilty to raping his daughter and was sentenced to ten years in prison. He was released early, and the prosecutor who tried him has accused him of then embarking on a harassment campaign against her and her family, for which he was tried and found guilty on sixteen counts of libel and defamation in 2016. In January 2019, the Honduras Supreme Court upheld a previous conviction of the journalist; he charged a public prosecutor with corruption in 2016. On March 28, 2019, after exhausting all of his appeals, including the Supreme Court of Honduras and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, he was arrested by the National Honduran police in a raid on Radio Globo as he was on the air.

References

  1. "Muere el controvertido periodista hondureño, David Romero Ellner por COVID-19". Vanguardia (in Spanish). 18 July 2020. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  2. "David Romero Ellner: Una vida de servicio social y controversia". 18 July 2020.
  3. Los hechos hablan por sí mismos: informe preliminar sobre los desaparecidos. Honduras. Comisionado Nacional de los Derechos Humanos. p. 39
  4. ^ "Hondurese journalist overleden na oplopen coronavirus in gevangenis / Villamedia". www.villamedia.nl.
  5. "David Romero Ellner: Una vida de servicio social y controversia". 18 July 2020.
  6. "Honduran journalist David Romero dies after contracting COVID-19 in jail". July 19, 2020.
  7. "2003 dejó tres diputados presos y otro prófugo". La Prensa. Archived from the original on 2024-05-24.
  8. "SEMANA DEL 30 AL 1 DE AGOSTO DEL 2002". El Centro de Investigación y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos. Archived from the original on 2009-10-24.
  9. "Honduras: Sentencian periodista a 10 años de prisión". Chicago Tribune. 15 March 2016. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
  10. Centro de Derecho de Mujeres (2006). "Fuerzas para seguir: Testimonio de un abuso sexual". Centro de Derechos de Mujeres. Retrieved 2019-03-30.
  11. ^ "Capturan al periodista hondureño David Romero". La Prensa (Honduras). 22 March 2019. Retrieved 2019-03-30.
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