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Nicaraguan police invaded the news channel 100% Friday night and arrested its director, relatives and colleagues reported in the latest attack of President Daniel Ortega against critics to his government.
Conflicts in Nicaragua: understanding the crisis in the country
The channel "100% Noticias" is the only one in the country to have broadcast 24 hours a day on the political crisis that has raged in Nicaragua since April. Its director, Miguel Mora, took refuge in the chain three weeks ago because of the threats he had received from the government.
"You can do everything, stop me, make me disappear, but we will be at the last consequences," Mora said Thursday during an interview with Reuters in his office.
Mora is accused of having supervised hate speech and other crimes.The police blocked access to the offices of the chain of television during the raid, said a Reuters witness.
The local regulator ordered television companies we have to suspend the transmission of 100% News signals.
At the end of November, the government ordered satellite television operators to remove the signal from the network channel.
Demonstration: a poster questioning the status of political prisoners during a demonstration in Managua, Nicaragua, Wednesday 15 (-) –
A protester presenting a Poster Involving the Status of Political Prisoners During a Demonstration in Managua, Nicaragua, on Wednesday (15) – Photo: Inti Ocon / AFP
The 100% News broadcast was interrupted for six days when the crisis erupted in April. Mora has repeatedly denounced in his program that members of the government had asked him to change his editorial line or face the consequences.
The chief of information of the channel, Lucía Pineda, who was also arrested, was able to broadcast live while the police entered the premises until they were arrested. she emptied the security cameras and disconnected the chain.
Mauricio Madrigal, head of information for Channel 10, which broadcasts the news program Acción 10, said by phone that this channel, Channel 9 and Channel 11, had also been removed signal from the country's largest cable company.
Last week, the Nicaraguan police confiscated the premises of journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro, as well as a dozen disabled NGOs for receiving money to finance a coup d'etat # 39; State.
Since April, thousands of people have been taking to the streets of Central American country to demand the resignation of Ortega, whom they accuse of having run a family dictatorship.
The government on Wednesday expelled two missions of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR) to investigate violence during the country's protests.
During the eight months of conflict, at least 322 people have died and more than 500 are imprisoned, according to the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights, one of the NGOs on the UN's blacklist. government.
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