The mid-year meeting of the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) concluded that increasing violence against journalists is the main challenge to the free press in the Americas. It also denounced an increase in imprisonment, the forced exile of journalists, judicial harassment, and stigmatization.
We condemn the judicial farce taking place in Nicaragua by which Judge Luden Martín Quiroz in the Ninth Criminal District Court of Managua has sentenced independent journalists and workers for the now-defunct Violeta Barrios de Chamorro Foundation (FVBCH) to between 7 and 14 years in prison.