Legal representative of La Prensa newspaper, Juan Lorenzo Holmann Chamorro, in a file photo (EFE/Jorge Torres)
The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) described this Friday as “crazy madnessThe sentence of nine years imprisonment “for alleged money laundering” is against it Juan Lorenzo Holman Chamorromanager of the newspaper the press from Nicaragua.
In a statement, the hemispheric organization highlights that the Nicaraguan judiciary on Thursday sentenced Holmann Chamorro to nine years in prison.money laundering, of course, after a three-day process behind closed doors“.
“This is another insane stupidity of the Ortega-Murillo regime, shamelessly provoking the international community and violating all principles of due process.‘ they stated Jorge CanahuatiPresident of IAPA, and Carlos JornetPresident of the organization’s Committee on Freedom of the Press and Information.
Holmann Chamorro, considered by humanitarian organizations to be a political prisoner of Daniel Ortega’s regime, He was sentenced to nine years in prison and a fine this Thursday.according to the newspaper La Prensa, the oldest in the country.
The judge Nadia Camila Tardencilla RodriguezChief of the Second Criminal District Court of Managua, It also disqualified Holmann Chamorro, the regional vice president of the IAPA Commission on Freedom of Press and Information for Nicaragua, from practicing his profession, trade or position.while it lasts
Archive photo of police officers standing at the entrance of an Editorial La Prensa property during a search operation in Managua (EFE/Jorge Torres)
The journalist has been detained since August 14, 2021, a day after the regime occupied and closed the Managua headquarters of the newspaper, which is now published digitally.
Before Holmann Chamorro’s sentencing The “Orteguista judiciary” had convicted “in equally irregular trials” the journalists Miguel Mora and Miguel Mendoza, who are serving prison sentences of 13 and 9 years respectively, and Cristiana Chamorro and Pedro Joaquín Chamorro, members of the board the pressThey were sentenced to 8 and 9 years in prison..
For its next biannual meeting, scheduled for April 19-21, to “review” the state of press freedom in every country in America, IAPA invited relatives of political prisoners to participatepoints to the statement.
The IAPA’s Chapultepec Index Barometer ranks Nicaragua, along with Venezuela and Cuba, as the countries with a total lack of press freedom in America.
Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo (REUTERS / Oswaldo Rivas / Archive)
The UN has authorized the investigation into possible human rights violations by the Ortega dictatorship
The UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution this Thursday that is to be established a group of three experts investigating possible human rights violations in Nicaragua since April 2018when a popular revolt broke out, described as an attempted coup by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega.
The resolution with approved 20 votes for the Member States, 7 against and 20 abstentionsthey decide Formation of this investigative mechanism with the order ofCollect, store and analyze information and evidence” about these possible human rights violations, “Identify those responsible“.
With an initial term of one year, This mission will have a mission similar to that approved for Venezuela in 2019 by another resolution of the Human Rights Council, so It is the second investigation mechanism of its kind for Latin American countries..
The resolution was presented by Ecuador, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Paraguay and Peruand was sponsored by nearly fifty governments.
The document also expresses concern about “the deterioration of democracy and human rights in Nicaragua“Where It Happened”an increase in restrictions on democratic space and suppression of dissent“.
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The executive director of the Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa has been sentenced to nine years in prison. The Ortega regime passed an education reform that will weaken the autonomy of universities in Nicaragua