After the 97th anniversary of La Prensa, the Nunca Más Nicaragua Human Rights Collective recalled that despite the fact that the oldest newspaper in Nicaragua has suffered assault, confiscation, exile and exile “it continues to inform the people of Nicaragua that they demand truth and justice.”
“We recognize this media outlet as one of the pillars of independent journalism that fights for freedom of expression and press in Nicaragua, despite the closures, censorship and all kinds of attacks that it has experienced, the hardest being the murder of its director Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal,” the agency said.
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He stressed that the editorial staff of LP had to go into exile after the voracious persecution of the Daniel Ortega regime against several of its workers, in addition to the kidnapping of several of its directors, who were convicted, “suffered in prison and were exiled in an arbitrary and unconstitutional act together with hundreds of other people”.
Regarding the robbery of the facilities of the newspaper La Prensa, the Collective demanded the return of all the assets of the outlet, as well as the cessation of the persecution against independent journalism “and the freedom of all political prisoners in Nicaragua.”
For its part, La Prensa commemorated the 97th anniversary of its foundation, stating that “in the midst of adversity, but we always (continue) firm in our values.”
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“97 years being the voice of Nicaraguans, always brave and firm in the fight for democracy,” said the outlet, who took the opportunity to report that it has a 50 percent discount on any of its premium plans. One form of survival for La Prensa has been the subscription mechanism.
The repressive wave of the Ortega regime against La Prensa intensified on August 12, 2021, when the Police seized its facilities so that the dictatorship would later confiscate it. He also kidnapped and sentenced his manager Juan Lorenzo Holmann Chamorro and his directors Cristiana and Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Barrios, whom he exiled from the country on February 9 of this year and later took away their nationality.
