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Weekly Report - 11 August 2016 (WR-16-31)

HONDURAS: Official secrets legislation under fire

With human-rights activists, environmentalists and journalists continuing to be killed with impunity in Honduras, the government led by President Juan Orlando Hernández is under renewed pressure to take remedial action. The spokesperson for the Mission to Support the Fight against Corruption and Impunity in Honduras (Maccih), the respected Peruvian jurist Juan Jiménez, has again called for a revision of the official freedom of information (FOI) law on the grounds that the legislation, approved in 2014, does not meet the standards of the Organization of American States (OAS, which is sponsoring the Maccih), or other international model legislation on transparency and public information.

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