Top Nicaraguan journalist flees country amid escalating crackdown

Carlos Fernando Chamorro: They won't silence journalism'

Chamorro's sister among 19 jailed in pre-election crackdown

Nicaragua's most prominent journalist has fled the country for a second time after police raided his house during a widening crackdown on opposition figures by the country's Sandinista rulers.

Carlos Fernando Chamorro, the editor of the Confidencial website and a member of one of the country's most influential political families, said on Tuesday he had left the Central American country to safeguard his freedom".