David Romero Ellner Explained

David Romero Ellner (died 18 July 2020)[1] was a Honduran journalist, lawyer and politician. He was a Liberal party congressman and formerly mayor of Tegucigalpa.[2] [3] He was director of Radio Globo and Globo TV. He was known for his investigations into corruption in the country.[4]

He died on 18 July 2020, from COVID-19 that he contracted in prison during the COVID-19 pandemic in Honduras.[5] 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.[6]

Convictions

In 2002, Romero Ellner was charged with raping his daughter.[7] On 30 July 2002 he was stripped of his parliamentary immunity and office.[8] [9] In 2004, he pleaded guilty to raping his daughter and was sentenced to ten years in prison.[10] [11] 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.[11] 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.[11]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Muere el controvertido periodista hondureño, David Romero Ellner por COVID-19 . Vanguardia . 18 July 2020 . July 19, 2020 . es.
  2. Web site: 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. Web site: David Romero Ellner: Una vida de servicio social y controversia. 18 July 2020.
  5. Web site: Hondurese journalist overleden na oplopen coronavirus in gevangenis / Villamedia. www.villamedia.nl.
  6. Web site: Honduran journalist David Romero dies after contracting COVID-19 in jail. July 19, 2020.
  7. News: 2003 dejó tres diputados presos y otro prófugo . La Prensa . https://archive.today/20240524193536/https://www.webcitation.org/5lt8jewjm?url=http://archivo.laprensa.hn/ez/index.php/laprensa_user/ediciones/2003/12/31/2003_dejo_tres_diputados_presos_y_otro_profugo . 2024-05-24 . dead .
  8. Web site: SEMANA DEL 30 AL 1 DE AGOSTO DEL 2002 . El Centro de Investigación y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos . https://web.archive.org/web/20091024083657/http://www.ciprodeh.org.hn/Informes/2002/0702_31-1_8.htm . 2009-10-24 . dead .
  9. Web site: Honduras: Sentencian periodista a 10 años de prisión . Chicago Tribune . 15 March 2016 . 21 July 2020.
  10. Web site: Fuerzas para seguir: Testimonio de un abuso sexual. Centro de Derecho de Mujeres. 2006. Centro de Derechos de Mujeres. 2019-03-30.
  11. Web site: Capturan al periodista hondureño David Romero. 22 March 2019. La Prensa (Honduras). 2019-03-30.

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