Home Title Index Topic Index Sources Directory News Releases Sources Calendar

Guatemala: Officials prevent indigenous radio station from reopening
Sources News Release

http://www.sources.com/Releases/NR2423.htm

Publisher:  Reporters without Borders
Date Written:  26/03/2015
Year Published:  2015  
Resource Type:  Article

Reporters Without Borders is alarmed by the continuing persecution of community radio stations in Guatemala, where the mayor of Santa Eulalia, in the western department of Huehuetenango, forcibly prevented members of the indigenous Mayan community

Abstract:  Reporters Without Borders is alarmed by the continuing persecution of community radio stations in Guatemala, where the mayor of Santa Eulalia, in the western department of Huehuetenango, forcibly prevented members of the indigenous Mayan community from reopening their station last week.

Indigenous representatives had wanted to organize a ceremony on 20 March to formally reopen Radio Snuq Jolom Konob, closed by the mayor two months ago, but the mayor and his supporters, some of them armed, pre...
To read the full release go to http://www.sources.com/Releases/NR2423.htm

Topics


Sources-journalists use the sources website to find you


AlterLinks
c/o Sources


© 2023.