– the Dictatorship allows yet another flagrant violation of freedom of expression, ” says José Miguel Vivanco, director for Human Rights Watch in the Americas.
It was Friday night, just after the last news broadcast, as the riot police went to the attack against the tv building. The police security service linked from the channel’s security cameras and turned down the channel. Then, police tv-the company’s owner, his wife, and the channel’s editor-in-chief. Even the tv company’s driver were taken to custody. Daniel Ortega’s regime mean that the tv channel 100% Noticias sown hatred in the society and accuse the owner of being a terrorist.
– the Channel provoke and conspire against the power, through their terrorist acts, says the regime.
has not the regime presented. The country’s former attorney-general says that there is no legal basis to ask the tv company’s manager, Miguel Mora, on trial.
– Article 510, which speaks of incitements to hatred, is very broad and up to the prosecutor’s interpretation. But Mora has not sown hatred. He has exercised his profession, and the scattered information. He has not found any news, ” says Alberto Novoa.
Even the pan-american organization for media, SIP, is critical of Ortega’s attempt to silence all independent media in Nicaragua.
– There is no doubt that Ortega declared war against the independent media. We hold the regime responsible for the safety of the Mora and all other nicaraguan journalists who have been assaulted and intimidated by a regime that does not respect human rights, ” says the organization’s president, María Elvira Domínguez.
in Nicaragua have also led to the popular newspaper Confidencial has been closed down and the newspaper editor-in-chief been attacked by the riot police. Also, other magazines have ceased, and when the news spread that the head of the television channel 100% Noticias arrested generation’s three other channels are temporarily down, as reported on the subject. Even the employees at the pan-american commission on human rights CIDH has threatened to leave the country after the commission investigated the crimes against humanity that Ortega’s regime was guilty of in the spring, when the executed opponents of the regime.
the Survey shows that the regime used automatvapnen AK-47 and AK-74, krypskyttgeväret Drugonov, sub-machine gun PKM and M16, and Magnumrevolvrar when it went to the attack against mothers who demonstrated that their sons were killed when they demonstrated against the regime. Amnesty International believes that Daniel Ortega should be tried for crimes against humanity, but so long as the defending Ortega himself by claiming he was the victim of an attempted coup by högerkrafter.
the Regime’s riot police have now closed again 100% Noticias building through to weld the zinkplåtar over the entrance.
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