Nicaragua police raid opposition paper, end rights groups’ permits 1 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy Agence France-PresseNicaraguan police have raided the offices of an opposition daily and then stripped human rights and activist groups’ permission to operate, those targeted said Saturday. Confidencial’s front door was sealed with tape following the raid. “Brutal display of brute force against journalists from @confidencial_ni in Nicaragua… this regime… aims to demolish critical voices in its country,” Human Rights Watch director Jose Miguel Vivanco said on Twitter. Leftist President Daniel Ortega first came to power in 1979 as a leader of the leftist Sandinista rebels that toppled the US-backed Somoza family dictatorship.

Source: Manila Bulletin December 16, 2018 00:45 UTC