(PROBIDAD/IFEX) – At 6:00 a.m. (local time) on 26 January 2005, Eugenio Hernández González was declared guilty of having assassinated María José Bravo, a correspondent for “La Prensa” newspaper. Judge Rosa Inés Osorio, of the Juigalpa Criminal Court, ruled on the case after a trial that lasted more than eight hours. Denis Báez, coordinator of […]
(PROBIDAD/IFEX) – At 6:00 a.m. (local time) on 26 January 2005, Eugenio Hernández González was declared guilty of having assassinated María José Bravo, a correspondent for “La Prensa” newspaper. Judge Rosa Inés Osorio, of the Juigalpa Criminal Court, ruled on the case after a trial that lasted more than eight hours.
Denis Báez, coordinator of the Nicaraguan Human Rights Centre (Centro Nicaragüense de Derechos Humanos, CENIDH), an organisation which closely followed the investigations into the murder, urged the journalistic community to present a united front and demand justice for their slain colleague.
Bravo was killed on 9 November 2004 outside a vote-counting centre in Juigalpa. She was covering a clash between members of the Alliance for the Republic (Alianza para la República, APRE) coalition and the Constitutionalist Liberal Party (Partido Liberal Constitucionalista, PLC). The two parties’ supporters were questioning the results of elections in Santo Tomás and Cuapa municipalities. Hernández, a former El Ayote mayor, shot Bravo at point-blank range.
