CPJ, partners call for Nicaraguan journalist Luis Galeano’s release from ICE detention
The coalition said Galeano faces danger if deported and noted he has a pending asylum case, a work permit and a Social Security number.
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While Washington regularly denounces the dictatorial drifts of the Nicaraguan regime, the U.S. immigration police have arrested nine exiled opponents for the past year waiting for their asylum application to be processed.
Chavarría Galeano left Nicaragua in 2018 and was arrested on September 14 in the United States while working as a Uber driver; he has been described as a “traitor of the homeland” by the Ortega-Murillo regime.
CPJ, partners call for Nicaraguan journalist Luis Galeano’s release from ICE detention
The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 14 other press freedom and civil society organizations in condemning the detention of Miami-based journalist Luis Galeano by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and called for his immediate release. Galeano, director of the Spanish-language outlet Café con Voz, was detained September 14 while working as a rideshare driver. He fled Nicaragua in 2018 after the Ortega-Murillo government stripped nea…
The informer lives in exile in the U.S. for the persecution of the Ortega regime's press and was arrested on Monday by immigration authorities
Press-Freedom Coalition Calls for the Immediate Release of ICE-Detained Journalist Luis Galeano
On Friday, a coalition of 15 civil-society and press-freedom organizations demanded that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) release renowned Miami-based journalist Luis Galeano. The letter’s signers include Free Press, the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, PEN America, Reporters Without Borders and the Society of Professional Journalists, among oth…
ICE detains Nicaraguan journalist and asylum-seeker Luis Galeano, whom the Ortega-Murillo regime stripped of citizenship in 2023 for opposing the government (Timothy Pratt/The Guardian)
Timothy Pratt / The Guardian: ICE detains Nicaraguan journalist and asylum-seeker Luis Galeano, whom the Ortega-Murillo regime stripped of citizenship in 2023 for opposing the government — Galeano, who has had asylum application pending for about seven years, was pulled over by agents while driving for Lyft
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