‘They are hunting journalists’: Nicaragua’s covert repression tactics strike fear beyond borders

‘They are hunting journalists’: Nicaragua’s covert repression tactics strike fear beyond borders

An estimated 268 Nicaraguan journalists have fled the Central American country for exile, many settling in the neighboring Costa Rica, to escape what CPJ’s research has documented to be a government-backed system of political repression and judicial harassment against media outlets that often prevents journalists, fearing for their families, from reporting the truth. Yet for...