The regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo has intensified the persecution against the newspaper La Prensa, the dean publication of journalism in Nicaragua.
Said medium reported a few weeks ago that its staff, including editors, reporters and photographers, have had to go into exile, after the police unleashed a hunt against them, which has included raids and harassment of homes.
Journalist Arlen Pérez, who is editor of the Human Rights microsite of La Prensa de Nicaragua, narrated this Thursday, on Radio Panama, what she has had to go through with her colleagues from the newsroom with exile due to this crisis, revealing that Nicaragua has taken away the opportunity to speak, not only to the media but to the rest of the people, as if it were a gag law.
He explained that President Ortega was step by step removing the printed newspaper, he put obstacles to the paper, the ink and supplies that were needed to print the newspapers, then the facilities were taken over. There are currently three directors of the newspaper La Prensa detained.
“Many people in Nicaragua are afraid to speak out because the government has done things by force such as protests, arrests, but then there is also what they called the gag law, which is the cybercrime law; what many people do is tell the journalists what is happening so that we can say it. If you post something on Facebook about the government of Daniel Ortega, and someone from the paramilitary groups finds that message and they denounce you for having attacked the integrity of the government and the state, and you become politically persecuted,” he explained.
