Left, photo published in La Prensa, right, original photo.
The Observers by France 24 / 9 July 2009
These photos seem to prove that a pro-coup newspaper digitally removed bloodstains from the image of a protester shot dead by soldiers.
Isis Obeth Murillo, 19, a young anti-coup protestor from ousted President Manuel Zelaya’s home state of Olancho, died after being shot in the head at the airport during Zelaya’s unsuccessful attempt to return to Tegucigalpa on Sunday. The image of his friends carrying him has become an iconic image for anti-coup protestors, who say that the army is enforcing a brutal crackdown in the country, largely covered up by the media.
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