The Nicaraguan journalist Victor Ticayarrested last Holy Thursday after covering a catholic procession in southwestern Nicaragua, he was sentenced to 8 years in prison for “propagation of false news” and “conspiracy to undermine national integrity,” considered “treason”reported this Thursday an NGO defending human rights.
Ticay, collaborator of Canal 10 of local television and director of the page of Facebook The coverwas sentenced to five years for the crime of undermining national integrity and three years for cybercrime, according to the Nunca Más Nicaragua Human Rights Collective, which sentenced the sentence.
“He Human Rights Collective Nicaragua Never Again repudiates the sentence of eight years in prison against the journalist Víctor Ticay for the alleged crimes of treason against the homeland and propagation of false news”, noted that NGO, made up of mostly Nicaraguan activists exiled in Costa Rica.
“These convictions and detentions are arbitrary and unconstitutional and are part of the repression strategy that the Ortega Murillo regime used to silence journalists and the media and instill terror in the population that is harassed, violated and impeded from their freedom of expression,” warned that NGO.
Ticay is deprived of liberty in the National Penitentiary System, known as The model, a maximum security prison located on the outskirts of Managua.