MANAGUA – A journalist and leader of the Autonomous Women’s Movement filed a complaint Monday with the independent Nicaraguan Human Rights Center about an attack she suffered last week at the hands of police.

“Four policemen detained me unjustly. They attacked me. They bruised my arms, they beat my legs. I accuse Lt. Humberto Nuñez, of the police of (the western city of) Leon of attacking me and the government of (President Daniel) Ortega for being behind all this,” Patricia Orozco told Efe.

Also, she said that she will bring the case to the attention of the Police Internal Affairs department, and she demanded that the police leadership launch an exhaustive investigation into the events of last Friday, when police officers detained her for several hours.

Orozco, the host of two radio news programs, said the cops attacked her in retaliation for the denunciations and investigations she had made since last year against the municipal government in Leon, controlled by Ortega’s Sandinista Party.

So far this year, in Nicaragua different civil organizations have complained that their members have been attacked by sympathizers of the Sandinista government. EFE