David Romero Ellner

David Ellner Romero is a Honduran journalist, lawyer and politician. He was a leader of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MRI, Revolutionary Left Movement),[1] and formerly a Liberal party congressman.

Rape conviction

In 2002, Romero Ellner was charged with raping his daughter.[2] On 30 July 2002 he was stripped of his parliamentary immunity.[3] In 2004, he pleaded guilty to raping his daughter and was sentenced to ten years in prison.[4][5] He was released early, and the prosecutor who tried him has accused him of then embarking on a harassment campaign against her and her family, for which he was tried and found guilty on sixteen counts of libel and defamation in 2016.[5] On March 28, 2019, after exhausting all of his appeals, including the Supreme Court of Honduras and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, he was arrested by the National Honduran police in a raid on Radio Globo as he was on the air.[5]

References
  1. Los hechos hablan por sí mismos: informe preliminar sobre los desaparecidos. Honduras. Comisionado Nacional de los Derechos Humanos. p. 39
  2. "2003 dejó tres diputados presos y otro prófugo". La Prensa. Archived from the original on 2009-12-09.
  3. "SEMANA DEL 30 AL 1 DE AGOSTO DEL 2002". El Centro de Investigación y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos. Archived from the original on 2009-12-19.
  4. Centro de Derecho de Mujeres (2006). "Fuerzas para seguir: Testimonio de un abuso sexual". Centro de Derechos de Mujeres. Retrieved 2019-03-30.
  5. "Capturan al periodista hondureño David Romero". La Prensa (Honduras). 22 March 2019. Retrieved 2019-03-30.
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