The director of Nicaragua's La Prensa newspaper was sentenced on Friday to nine years in prison for money laundering, according to his relatives, in the latest sentencing of a government opponent detained at the order of the administration.
The judge who sentenced Juan Lorenzo Holmann Chamorro also ordered that the newspaper's facilities and printing presses remain closed, but did not determine for how long. Holmann Chamorro was arrested in August, when police raided and occupied the newspaper's premises. Since then, the paper has only been published online.
