By: E&P Staff A Honduran cartoonist has been released from custody after being arrested and detained for 24 hours by that country's miltary authorities.
Allan McDonald was taken from his home outside the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa along with his 17-month-old daughter Abril by the Honduran Armed Forces, who destroyed McDonald's drawing materials and cartoons after ransacking his house.
McDonald has published several cartoons in the newspaper Diaro el Heraldo de Honduras and on the Web site Rebellion.org in support of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya.
Zelaya was overthrown last Sunday by the country's military after he insisted on a referendum that would allow him to seek a second term of office. Under the current Honduran constitution, presidents cannot be re-elected.
McDonald told the Habla Honduras blog that pressure from Rebellion.org and the Catholic Church of Spain helped secure his release, and that he was told he was arrested for breaking curfew. According to Rebellion.org, McDonald was detained with 15 other people, including two female journalists from Spain and Chile.
The Web site also claims that there is a list of 300 people that the military is targeting, primarily Zelaya government officials, intellectuals and labor leaders.
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