Victor Ticay

Victor Ticay: Detained for Boradcasting a Religious Event during Holy Week

In Nandaime, Victor Ticay’s, 31, hometown, his family celebrated every time a journalistic piece was published in the television channel, 10, where he worked.

The family’s pride was that Victor was a correspondent and he did different kinds of coverage in the previously mentioned channel.

The news of his detention spred quickly in the town. On April 5th, during Holy Week celebrations, he went out, as usual, to do his job and record the ceremonies of those dates.

It was not the first time he did this, each Holy Week, he broadcasted the ceremonies, but it was in 2023, when the regime prohibited religious manifestations in the middle of the persecution against priests from the Catholic Church, that he was arbitrarily detained for doing so.

Victor had a news page on Facebook called “La Portada,” in addition to his work as a correspondent, which, despite not constituting any crime, also served as an excuse for his arrest on April 6th, a day after the broadcasts, by the police serving Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.

According to articles published by the newspaper La Prensa, some people arrived to pick up Victor to his home at 7:00 in the morning, when he went out, the police rushed to detain and take him.

Thus, Victor is one more victim of arbitrary detentions ordered by the regime in Nicaragua. That same week, more than 30 people were captured and temporarily kept disappeared and later they were convicted of unfounded crimes like treason or the infamous Cybercrimes Law.

After 40 days disappeared, the prosecutor’s office, also in service to the regime, accused Ticay of cybercrimes and for such crime imposed a sentence of 3 years and 5 additional years for supposed treason.

Victor remains imprisoned in “La Modelo” prison in Nicaragua, under inhumane conditions.

Freedom for Victor Ticay!

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