Nicaragua Archives - Page 185 of 437

Nicaragua: Opponents 90-Day Preventive Detention to Expire

Uncertainty grows over the future of the Ortega regime’s political prisoners when the 90-day deadline for ongoing investigation expires.

Every international sanction imposed on top Ortega officials is followed by an increase in repressive acts against the country’s citizens.

Violations of human rights in Nicaragua are “inadmissible;” sovereignty and self-determination are only “pretexts,” assures COPPPAL

Leaders must be an example, the 1st to prove what they speak of with facts, to act & guide the country, not a political party or inner circle.

The Oxfam director for Latin America and the Caribbean, affirmed that the Interior Ministry refused to receive “the papers they asked for”

Nicaraguan poet & author Gioconda Belli expressed her concern for the flight of human capital in Nicaragua with the stepped-up repression.

“Ignoramuses, envious, meddlesome, a curse,” and accusations that they want to boycott November’s presidential elections.

A commitment to report from abroad and document what is happening in Nicaragua, despite the persecution against the press.

The women being held are “political activists, feminists, academics, journalists, revolutionary commanders, lawyers & human rights advocates”

Organizations working with women’s empowerment, environmental protection, and public participation in different spheres are targeted.