01 June 2025 | RSF
Journalist shot dead in Honduras
Shooting
On 1 June, Javier Antonio Hércules Salinas, a 51-year-old journalist from the local news Facebook page A Todo Noticias, was brutally murdered by armed individuals on a motorbike while driving a taxi — a job he alternated with his work as a local reporter. The journalist, originally from El Salvador, had been living in Honduras for over ten years and covered issues of local public interest. He had been under the protection of the National Protection System for Human Rights Defenders, Journalists, Social Communicators and Justice Operators (SNP) since October 2023, when he was the target of a series of threats and a kidnapping attempt, from which he managed to escape unharmed.
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