Alerts Freedom of the Press Nicaragua and the organization Lawyers Defenders of the People, through social networks, denounced that journalist Elsbeth D’Anda, director of the program La Cobertura, broadcast on Channel 23, has been detained for 17 days by order of the dictatorship Ortega-Murillo.
They explained that the arrest occurred on October 27, at around 3 in the afternoon, at the communicator’s home, where at least five patrols arrived, with about 20 Ortega police officers on board, who raided the home and They arrested him with violence.
Dr. José Antonio López, from Abogados Defensores del Pueblo, explained that the Police of the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship did not present a search warrant and did not report the reasons for the arrest of the communicator.
Elsbeth D’Anda, according to the defenders, was taken by the Police in handcuffs and aboard a private vehicle to the Judicial Assistance Directorate.
The defenders mentioned that the reasons for the arrest could be linked to the latest program La Cobertura, in which the communicator addressed an issue related to increases in the prices of the basic basket during the end-of-year holidays and payment of the bonus.
Arrested for reporting topics of social interest
“The case of the journalist (D’Anda) was solely for addressing social issues, not in the way people related to the Government are handling it, who point out that it was due to a drug case,” said López.
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The defenders point out that the Police, in addition to arresting D’Anda, took all his equipment, computers, tablets, cameras, which the communicator used to produce his program La Cobertura.
Alerts Freedom of the Press Nicaragua, a space in which cases of violations of Freedom of Expression and Press in Nicaragua are documented, demanded that the Ortega regime “cease the aggressions and attacks against critical journalists, release journalist D’Anda and provide information on the whereabouts of the journalist Fabiola Tercero”, who is in a condition of forced disappearance.
