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A director of the 100% News channel, closed Friday by Nicaraguan police, was arrested on Sunday, said a human rights organization. There is no information on the charges against the professional.
Lucía Pineda, press director of 100% Noticias, has dual citizenship – Nicaraguan and Costa Rican. She was presented to a court in Managua this morning as part of a strict security system. The family has not been warned and can not even send a lawyer, told AFP Pablo Cuevas, a lawyer at the Standing Committee on Human Rights (CPDH).
Pineda, aged 45 and 23, is the second journalist arrested since protests against the regime of Daniel Ortega, which broke out on April 18. The president speaks in "attempted coup d'etat". Hundreds of people have been killed in clashes between protesters and pro-government militias.
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The Government of Costa Rica on Saturday requested information on where Pineda was and activated the mechanisms at its disposal to protect its citizens abroad.
Police patrol in the vicinity of television in Nicaragua – Photo: Oswaldo Rivas / Reuters [1965900] 9] The Nicaraguan police invaded the TV news channel 100% Friday evening and arrested its director, as well as his family and colleagues, during the latest attack by President Daniel Ortega against critics of his government.
In addition to Pineda, the Ortega regime arrested Miguel Mora, director of 100% Noticias. The prosecution accused the journalist of "fomenting and instigating hatred and violence", which, according to the Penal Code, constitutes the crime of "provocation, proposition and conspiracy to commit crimes." terrorist acts ".
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The 100% News channel is the only one in the country to broadcast 24 hours a day on the political crisis 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.
"They can do anything, stop me, make me disappear, but we will be at the last consequences," Mora said in an interview with Reuters in his office on Thursday.
Brazil will not receive a representative of Nicaragua [19659015] The inauguration of PR Bolsonaro marks the beginning of a government having a firm and clear position in defense of freedom. To this end and in view of the violations of the Ortega regime against the freedom of the Nicaraguan people, no representative of this regime will be received at the ceremony of 1 January. The future foreign minister, Ernesto Araújo, announced on Sunday (23) on Twitter that Brazil would not receive representatives of Nicaragua held by Jair Bolsonaro as President of the Republic
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L & # 39; inauguration is scheduled for January 1 in Brasilia.
"The inauguration of PR Bolsonaro will mark the beginning of a government having a firm and clear stance in defense of freedom.In this regard, and against violations of the Ortega regime against freedom of the Nicaraguan people, no representative of this regime does event of the 1st day ", published Araújo on Twitter.
Map of Nicaragua – Photo: G1
