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		</div><p>Nicaraguan police raided the offices of opposition newspaper La Prensa.</p>
<p>The National Police said in a statement the raid was part of an investigation into “customs fraud and money laundering”.</p>
<p>It said the newspaper’s offices “remain under police custody”.</p>
<p>The raid came one day after La Prensa suspended its print edition because the government’s customs office had once again withheld newsprint paper.</p>
<p>La Prensa, founded in 1926, has been critical of President Daniel Ortega, who has also recently arrested dozens of opposition figures.</p>
<p>Mr Ortega’s regime has often used money laundering, tax and other accusations to raid non-governmental and civic groups it disagrees with.</p>
<p>Editor Fabian Medina, who was inside the building at the time, said via Twitter that the police “were looking for paper” used to print the daily.</p>
<p>He said that later police allowed reporters to return to their offices, but were still in the building.</p>
<p>La Prensa had said it would continue an online edition, but it was unclear how long it could continue to do so.</p>
<p>La Prensa has been the country’s only newspaper with a print edition since another opposition paper, El Nuevo Diario, closed in 2019.</p>
<p>On Thursday, the newspaper said in an editorial that “Once again the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship has withheld our paper”, referring to Mr Ortega’s wife and vice president, Rosario Murillo.</p>
<p>“Until they release the raw material, we cannot continue with the print edition,” the newspaper said.</p>
<p>The move also affects the sister paper Hoy.</p>
<p>The move marks the third time the government has withheld the newspaper’s paper or ink.</p>
<p>The paper had ceased printing for about 500 days in 2018 and 2019 amid widespread protests against the regime.</p>
<p>The nongovernmental Nicaraguan Centre for Human Rights protested against the raid and demanded respect for the employees inside the building.</p>
<p>Nicaragua is scheduled to hold national elections on November 7 and Mr Ortega is seeking a fourth consecutive term.</p>
<p>He placed an opposition vice presidential candidate under house arrest last week, then released her pending the outcome of an investigation.</p>
<p>Over the past two months, Mr Ortega’s government has arrested nearly three dozen opposition figures, including seven potential challengers for the presidency.</p>
<p>On Monday in Managua, the opposition alliance National Coalition said in a statement that it did not recognise the current electoral process as a way out of Nicaragua’s political crisis and urged Nicaraguans to not recognise it either.</p>
<p>Later Monday, authorities announced the arrest of opposition leader Mauricio Diaz Davila, a candidate for congress and a former ambassador to Costa Rica.</p>
<p>He had been called to the attorney general’s office on Monday as part of an investigation for alleged acts against the state.</p>
<p>His political party, Citizens For Liberty, said he was arrested with violence.</p>
<p>His ability to run for office had been cancelled by the electoral court three days earlier.</p>
<p>Party president Kitty Monterrey, whose Nicaraguan citizenship was withdrawn last week, called for his immediate release.</p>
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