International News Safety Institute

28 September 2010

Victor Hugo Juarez

Incident

Victor Hugo Juarez

Cause of death

Other non-natural

Details

Unidentified assailants tortured and killed Guatemalan journalist Victor Hugo Juarez in a residential area just outside the capital, his family said Tuesday. 

Juarez, who was killed in the attack along with Byron Davila Diaz, the 38-year-old owner of a small graphic design company, owned two online news sites: Wanima News and Guatemala Empresarial.

The bodies, which police said were found Monday at Davila's home, were tied up in a bed, showed signs of torture and strangulation, according to an official report. Juarez, 50, had reported for the daily Siglo XXI and, more recently, for the sports section of Nuestro Diario newspaper. Juarez had received death threats prior to his death.

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