Héctor Francisco Medina Polanco

On 28 March 2012, activist Miriam Miranda was beaten by police and soldiers, arrested and held for 12 hours. Miranda is the president of the Fraternal Black Organization of Honduras (Ofraneh). This organization created Radio Faluma Bimetu (Coco Dulce), a community radio station that has been censored and attacked. Although she has been released, Miranda remains charged with sedition.

Héctor Francisco Medina Polanco was a Honduran journalist who often reported on agricultural and corruption issues in Honduras. An employee of Omega Visión, he died 11 May 2011 from gunshot wounds inflicted by assailants the previous evening.

Héctor's brother, journalist Carlos Alberto Medina Polanco, has reported to C-Libre that he has been receiving death threats via messages on his mobile phone. In the messages he has been told that he will "meet the same fate" if he continues to demand an investigation into his brother's death. He also noted that he has been followed by individuals on a motorcycle when he leaves the San Pedro Sula radio station where he works. As a result, he has taken a temporary leave of absence from his position at the station. In addition, he reported that, on 10 June 2011, his 16-year-old daughter was kidnapped, assaulted and questioned about his activities for three hours. "The trauma caused by the coup continues to affect Honduran society and the current demonstrations are an expression of this," AMARC-ALC and Reporters Without Borders said. "The repression has been stepped up again in the wake of the testimony about the situation that representatives of grass-roots movements, civil society organizations and NGOs gave to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, now in session."

Medina was the 11th journalist killed in Honduras; none have been investigated. "It will be hard to celebrate National Day of the Journalist on 25 May if the persecution of community radio stations and news media opposed to the June 2009 coup d’état continues at the same frenetic pace, especially in the San Pedro Sula region, where there have been several cases in recent days," Reporters Without Borders said.