Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Top Nicaraguan journalist flees country amid escalating crackdown

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• Carlos Fernando Chamorro: ‘They won’t silence journalism’

• Chamorro’s sister among 19 jailed in pre-election crackdown

Nicaragua’s most prominent journalist has fled the country for a second time after police raided his house during a widening crackdown on opposition figures by the country’s Sandinista rulers.

Carlos Fernando Chamorro, the editor of the Confidencial website and a member of one of the country’s most influential political families, said on Tuesday he had left the Central American country to “safeguard his freedom”.

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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/jun/22/nicaragua-journalist-exile-carlos-fernando-chamorro-ortega
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