In one of the world’s most dangerous regions for environmental and human rights activists, La Siguata offers a safe space for women suffering trauma as a result of their work
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Police Assault Journalist Kalua Salazar, Impose House Arrest
Riot police from Bluefields, Nicaragua illegally seized Radio La Costenisima’s vehicle according to Salazar, station head of the radio.
20 abril, 2021
Riot police officers from the National Police beat and illegally detained journalist Kalua Salazar, station head of Radio La Costenisima. At dawn on Monday, April 19, the newswoman tried to leave her home in Bluefields to go to the media outlet, but the officers forcibly prevented her from doing so.
“The radio vehicle came to pick me up, in the car was the master control operator, the program host and the editor. And when I was leaving, a Police patrol pulled up. They told my colleagues to get out of the vehicle and told me: ‘you are not leaving,’ Salazar denounced in a telephone interview with Confidencial.
Aiding Central America s Women on the Run
Gabriela DÃaz Prieto and Sarah Gammage January 19, 2016
A fence at the U.S. border. (Photo: BBC World Service)
Norma remains in a detention center in the United States, where she awaits the resolution of her asylum petition. She left a neighborhood in El Salvador, controlled by the M-18 Gang, at the end of 2014. Four members of the gang kidnapped her, took her to a cemetery where they raped her and then threw her in a trashcan all an attempt to send a message to her husband, a Salvadoran police officer. Reporting the violence only made things worse; shortly after the incident Norma and other members of her family began to receive death threats.