The Prosecutor’s Office of the Ortega regime accused four workers of the confiscated newspaper La Prensa for the alleged crime of “conspiracy to undermine national integrity”, a charge for which they have sentenced the majority of Nicaraguan political prisoners.
According to the electronic system of the Judiciary, known as “Nicarao”, the accusation was formalized on September 29 and is filed in the Fifth Criminal District Court of Managua, in charge of Nalia Nadezhda Úbeda Obando.
The judicial is part of the judicial machinery, made up of 15 officials who have finalized the judicial fabrications that have sent at least 205 Nicaraguans to Nicaraguan prisons for political reasons.
In addition, Úbeda is in charge of a trial —until now the alleged crimes are unknown— against three priests, a deacon, two seminarians and a cameraman who lived under police siege with Bishop Rolando José Álvarez, in the Curia of Matagalpa between on August 4 and 19 last.
The accusation was presented by the prosecutor Heydi Estela Ramírez Olivas. The judicial official is known for her work persecuting independent media in the case of the Violeta Barrios de Chamorro Foundation, in which she threatened journalists with applying the cybercrime law, after accusing them of publishing false news during interrogation processes. .
The persecution against the newspaper La Prensa
La Prensa has accused the dictatorship of unleashing an intense “hunt” and persecution against its personnel, for which they had to go into exile. The night of last July 6, two newspaper drivers were illegally detained and later the Ortega justice ordered them to be held in custody for up to 90 days, without knowing the charges against them. Both citizens are imprisoned in the cells of the Judicial Assistance Directorate (DAJ), known as El Chipote.
On August 23, the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo made official the theft of property and the building of the newspaper La Prensa —the oldest in Nicaragua—, a year after the National Police forcibly occupied its facilities and arrested to its general manager, Juan Lorenzo Holmann Chamorro.
The regime installed, in the stolen building, the “José Coronel Urtecho” Cultural and Polytechnic Center, under the administration of the National Technological Institute (Inatec).
Ortega governs for the fourth consecutive term and, in these sixteen years, has closed 54 media outlets, newspapers, radio stations, television channels and digital media, some through the cancellation of their operating licenses, others through economic suffocation and, most recently, through the seizure of military manual of their premises and the confiscation of their property.
