See Update: Two armed men on a motorcycle opened fire on the home of Honduran radio reporter José Encarnación Chinchilla and seriously wounded one of his sons.
It wasn't the first attack on Chinchilla, who reports for the national commercial station Radio Cadena Voces in the city of El Progreso. Police were slow to respond.
Police are also accused of intimidating another station, Radio Progreso, over its coverage of agrarian conflicts in the region.
Update 5pm: The International Press Institute reports that Chinchilla has sought political asylum. He has asked the US embassy in Tegucigalpa for permission to travel to the United States.
Source: Reporters Without Borders
