The journalist Hazel Zamora Hernández, originally from Bluefields and who works as a correspondent for television channel 10 in that city, was arrested this Friday afternoon, May 5, in a sentry box, in the San Benito area, when the young woman The reporter was traveling from Managua to the South Caribbean, as confirmed by her husband, Johan Rivas Leyva, who is in the United States.
The spouse of the journalist Hazel Zamora said that the only thing he knows is that his wife was taken off the bus in which she was traveling along with their two children, ages 6 and 12. “It’s the only thing I know. That plainclothes policemen got her off the bus. I don’t know more about her or her children. I don’t know where they have them,” Rivas said with a worried tone, through WhatsApp messages.
Likewise, Johan Rivas Leyva confirmed that his house in Bluefields was raided by the Police minutes after the arrest took place on the highway.
The platform Alertas Libertad de Prensa Nicaragua reported earlier through Twitter about the capture and search. “Zamora was taken off a public transport bus along with her underage children…. The police officers also raided her home and took her work equipment, “denounces the activist platform.
Another journalist from Bluefields, asked about the situation of his colleague, added that in the afternoon, this Friday, several police officers “arrived, searched the house, took her journalism equipment, her computer, and they have her.” arrested”.
The journalist’s husband indicated that the channel 10 correspondent was in Managua carrying out immigration procedures with her children. “She was already here (in the United States) and she returned to Nicaragua because she had to do some paperwork (in Immigration) for the children,” she specified.
“We don’t know anything about the children. I am worried and I precisely want it to be published to see if the Police contact my mother so that they hand over the children, “he said desperately.
Hazel Zamora had been working for channel 10 for about a year as a reporter for the media outlet in Bluefields.
Upon learning of Zamora’s arrest, this screenshot of the defendant began to circulate on social networks, which was extracted from the Nicarao system, of the Judiciary. The document reads that the journalist was criminally prosecuted since May 3, 2023. The reason for the complaint reads “Accusation without detainee”but below, Nicaraguan society and the State of the Republic of Nicaragua are indicated as a “victim”.
It also identifies that the case was received by Judge Karen Vanessa Chavarría, head of the Ninth Criminal Court of Hearing, Managua district, and presented by prosecutor Jorge Luis Arias Jarquín.
Along with the journalist Hazel Zamora, there are two channel 10 correspondents who have been detained by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega. During the Holy Week activities, the Sandinista regime arrested Víctor Ticay, a correspondent for the same media outlet in Nandaime, a town in the department of Granada, in the south of the country.
Ticay remains kidnapped by the Police without official accusation or judicial process.
