After two months of keeping him “kidnapped” and incommunicado from his relatives, the justice system at the service of the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship found the journalist, Víctor Ticay, a correspondent for Channel 10, guilty of the alleged crime of spreading false news and treason. , who was transferred to La Modelo penitentiary this Friday, June 9.
Article 66 managed to establish communication with friends of the communicator’s family, who confirmed that Ticay was taken in the early hours of the morning from the cell of District 3, of the Ortega Police, where he was being held, to take him to a hearing to continue the trial , where he was found guilty and immediately ordered transferred to the cells of the Jorge Navarro penitentiary, known as La Modelo, in Tipitapa.
Details of the trial hearing are unknown. It transpired that the journalist did not have a defense of his election, nor was he allowed to claim anything in his defense or present evidence of his innocence, as has happened with all political prisoners. The sentence will be communicated to the journalist in the next few hours.
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The sources affirmed that the journalist has been completely incommunicado for the more than two months that he has been kidnapped. His relatives have not been able to see him, not even to give him medicine to treat the gastritis he suffers from.
“They have not notified anything, neither about the accusation nor about the trial,” said one of the people who agreed to speak on condition of anonymity so as not to expose himself to reprisals.
He added that what little has been known about Ticay has been known through “other sources”, because the Ortega Police, the Prosecutor’s Office and the Court, in charge of the communicator case, maintain total secrecy, as has happened with all the political prisoners, to the point of denying him a particular defense of his choice, violating due process.
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Víctor Ticay, who worked as a correspondent for Channel 10 in Nandaime, was kidnapped by people in civilian clothes on April 6, after having broadcast a mass live on Facebook. The civilians arrived very early in the morning at his house, where he was with his wife, and without further explanation they took him out and took him away.
Another source who spoke to this media outlet reported that this Friday, at about 10 in the morning, when Ticay was returned from the courts in a police minibus, another larger bus was already waiting inside the facilities of District 3 of the Police, with several more political prisoners, already on board, and at once they put him in that vehicle and took them to La Modelo. At least 18 prisoners of conscience would go on that bus. The policemen who were in the transfer operation refused to provide information.
Organizations defending human rights and the journalistic union have started a campaign for the release of the communicator who was criminalized for carrying out his work of reporting.
