By Ingrid Bachmann
It appears that the killing of reporter David Meza Montesinos will not go unpunished. After weeks of investigations, the attorney general has issued an arrest order against four people accused of killing the TV and radio reporter last March, Radio América and El Heraldo report.
Meza, 51, was shot to death while driving in the coastal city of La Ceiba. The arrest warrants represent the first criminal action taken this year in Honduras for a crime against a journalist, La Tribuna reports. Since March, six journalists and a radio announcer have been killed in Honduras, and the government is responding to growing pressures to solve those crimes.
The prosecutor in charge of the case has not revealed details nor proof against the accused. But he said there is sufficient evidence to prosecute the suspects, who are accused of planning and carrying out the killing, La Tribuna and El Heraldo add.
Note from the editor: This story was originally published by the Knight Center’s blog Journalism in the Americas, the predecessor of LatAm Journalism Review.
