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Nicaraguan Reporter Denounces Attack by
Police
MANAGUA – A journalist and leader of the
Autonomous Women’s Movement filed a
complaint Monday with the independent
Nicaraguan Human Rights Center about an
attack she suffered last week at the hands
of police.
“Four policemen detained me unjustly. They
attacked me. They bruised my arms, they beat
my legs. I accuse Lt. Humberto Nuñez, of the
police of (the western city of) Leon of
attacking me and the government of
(President Daniel) Ortega for being behind
all this,” Patricia Orozco told Efe.
Also, she said that she will bring the case
to the attention of the Police Internal
Affairs department, and she demanded that
the police leadership launch an exhaustive
investigation into the events of last
Friday, when police officers detained her
for several hours.
Orozco, the host of two radio news programs,
said the cops attacked her in retaliation
for the denunciations and investigations she
had made since last year against the
municipal government in Leon, controlled by
Ortega’s Sandinista Party.
So far this year, in Nicaragua different
civil organizations have complained that
their members have been attacked by
sympathizers of the Sandinista government.
EFE
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