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ACTION ALERT - GUATEMALA

17 July 1997

Journalist killed along with messenger at radio station

SOURCE: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), New York

(CPJ/IFEX) - Norman Homero Hernandez Perez, a newsreader at Radio
Campesina in Tiquisate, Escuintla, was shot dead on 16 July 1997
along with Haroldo Escobar Noriega, a messenger at the station.
According to information obtained by CPJ, when Hernandez Perez and
Escobar left Radio Campesino in the early morning after completing
their shift, they were ambushed by a group of heavily armed men who
opened fire, killing them instantly. While the motives behind the
murder are not known, and while CPJ has no evidence indicating that
Hernandez Perez was killed because of his work as a journalist, CPJ
is requesting an investigation of the circumstances surrounding this
crime.

RECOMMENDED ACTION:

Send appeals to authorities:
-respectfully requesting that they conduct a complete
investigation of the circumstances surrounding this crime
-asking to be kept informed of developments in the investigation

APPEALS TO:

His Excellency Alvaro Arzu
President of Guatemala
National Palace
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Fax: +502 2 537472/519702/347364/515667/214537/535856

For further information, contact Joel Simon or Juanita Leon at
CPJ, 330 Seventh Ave, New York NY 10001, U.S.A., tel:+1 212 465
1004, fax:+1 212 465 9568, e-mail: americas@cpj.org,
jleon@cpj.org, Internet: http://www.cpj.org.

The information contained in this alert is the sole responsibility of
CPJ. In citing this material for broadcast or publication, please
credit CPJ.
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