The Nicaraguan Human Rights Collective Never Again condemned the arbitrary closure of operations to which Radio Darío was subjected, in León, by the Nicaraguan Institute of Telecommunications and Post Office (Telcor).
The organization pointed out that in order to give a supposed legality to the censorship of the media and the independent press, the Ortega regime
“Use Telecommunications Law 200” at your convenience.
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“Radio Darío, with 73 years of history, has suffered attacks, fires, raids and its journalistic team, led by its director Aníbal Toruño, persecuted and forced to move inside and outside the country, all for raising their voices to denounce the violations of human rights and defend fundamental freedoms in Nicaragua”, indicate human rights defenders.
Faced with this new attack on the radio station, the Collective said that the closure of independent media outlets constitutes serious violations of human rights “particularly freedom of expression and the press, access to public information and the right of each person to choose the means by which you wish to receive information”.
The defenders demanded that the Ortega dictatorship immediately cease the repression, as well as the repeal of all repressive laws and the freedom of all political prisoners in Nicaragua, including journalists Miguel Mendoza, Miguel Mora, and executives of the newspaper La Prensa, as well as two of its drivers.
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“From the Collective, we stand in solidarity with the journalist Toruño and with the journalistic team of Radio Darío who, even under permanent attack, have said that they will continue with their informative work digitally and through their social networks,” concluded the Human Rights Collective, from San Jose Costa Rica.
Faced with this new attack on censorship, the journalist Aníbal Toruño affirmed with aplomb that “neither turning off equipment nor arbitrarily withdrawing a license will succeed in silencing us or silencing the truth.”
“After 73 years, Radio Darío is and will be a voice that defends justice, democracy and citizen rights. Far from intimidating us, their actions strengthen us », she remarked through her Twitter account.
The León station is one of the few independent radio media outlets that continue to resist the onslaught of the Sandinista government and report on the crisis the country is going through. The censorship occurs in a repressive wave of Ortega that began in July and has not stopped, rather it has intensified against the Catholic Church and independent journalists.
