One of Nicaragua’s leading national newspapers La Prensa announced last Thursday on its website that its staff had been forced to flee the country and would continue working from outside Nicaragua.
The country’s authorities took control of La Prensa’s offices in August and arrested two of its employees earlier this month.
Those arrests came after La Prensa reported on the expulsion nuns from the Missionaries of Charity established by Mother Teresa.
The government of President Daniel Ortega has moved repeatedly against independent press outlets, as well as shutting down over 1,000 civil society organizations.
When the government seized the newspaper’s office last August, it also arrested its general manager who remains jailed.
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