Committee to Protect Journalists: Honduran Government Declares State of Emergency, Suspends Right to Free Expression
March 19, 2020
March 19, 2020
NEW YORK, March 19 -- The Committee to Protect Journalists issued the following news on March 18:
Honduran authorities must immediately lift newly imposed restrictions on free expression and let members of the press cover the news freely, the Committee to Protect Journalists said.
On March 16, the office of President Juan Orlando Hernandez published a decree instituting a state of emergency for seven days due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which imposes a curfew and revokes . . .
Honduran authorities must immediately lift newly imposed restrictions on free expression and let members of the press cover the news freely, the Committee to Protect Journalists said.
On March 16, the office of President Juan Orlando Hernandez published a decree instituting a state of emergency for seven days due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which imposes a curfew and revokes . . .