IAPA will denounce the regime of Daniel Ortega to the UN

The authorities of the Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) announced that they would file a complaint against the regime of Daniel Ortega to the Human Rights Commission of the Organization of the United Nations for the persecution of the independent press in Nicaragua.

"During these months, we fought relentlessly against repressive regimes such as Cuba and Venezuela and more particularly Nicaragua. That's why we will denounce "the Ortega Dietsaid María Elvira Domínguez, president of SIP.

"With growing international pressure on Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua, the journalism of the continent is facing an unprecedented situation that requires reflection and badysis in the urgent search for solutions", He added at a meeting of the agency that held this weekend in Cartagena, Colombia.

A report on the situation of the independent press in Nicaragua was published during the weekend meeting. "The political, social and economic situation has deteriorated and the freedom of the press and the situation of many journalists are critical"says the report.

"Journalists remain in deplorable conditions Miguel Mora, director of the television channel 100% Noticias, as well as its press chief, Lucía Pineda. The chain was and continues to be closed and guarded by the police. The two journalists were accused of provocation and conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism & # 39;, Mora having received the SIP prize of the freedom of the press in the name of the independent journalism in Nicaragua ", underlines the SIP.

According to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), at least 325 people have died as a result of protests against social aircraft against Ortega last April. have played an important role in the crisis since the death of a journalist, several have been arrested and more than 60 have been exiled.

(With EFE information)