A mass to offer thanks for the release of a large group of political prisoners ended in a confrontation between the National Police under the orders of Daniel Ortega and about a hundred citizens attempting to stage a protest outside the Managua cathedral.
Read MoreDaniel Ortega must cease his persecution of journalists and the campaign of intimidation and threats against the media. He must order the State to suspend the acts of confiscation against Confidencial and 100% Noticias, return the stolen property, and compensate those affected.
Read MoreThe executive secretary of the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights (IACHR), Pablo Abrao, knows first-hand the suffering of those who dared protest against Daniel Ortega’s regime. For that reason, the Amnesty Law that the regime prescribed for itself concerns him.
Read MoreA dozen people were beaten and wounded on Saturday, June 15th in the cathedral of Leon, after a mob of fanatics of the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo attacked with stones, glass bottles and sticks during a mass for the first anniversary of the murder of Sandor Dolmus, an altar boy of that Catholic temple.
Read MoreA group of Olesia Munoz Pavon’s’ neighbors waited in vain to receive her at her home in Niquinohomo, Masaya. The political prisoner was released last Tuesday, but couldn’t go home because mobs of Ortega sympathizers were lying in wait…
Read MoreEdwin Carchache: “An important step for me now is that the agreements be fulfilled and to continue denouncing Ortega.” Carcache, known as the ‘kid with the hat’, is one of the Nicaraguan student leaders who was arrested for the fabricated crimes of “terrorism” and aggravated theft.
Read MoreRural leader Medardo Mairena, released on June 11, along with 55 other political prisoners, denounced the torture he lived in custody in the first press conference he gave after being released. He also said he will continue in the struggle until there is democracy and the rule of law in Nicaragua.
Read MoreMerchant Irlanda Jerez spent 329 days as a prisoner of the Ortega-Murillo regime. During that time, she was interrogated nude, beaten and tortured. She was released on June 11, but she was unable to return to her home in Managua….
Read MoreIf it weren’t for the weight they’ve both lost it would be difficult to believe that Miguel Mora and Lucia Pineda Ubau have spent 172 days of solitary confinement in the maximum security cells of the Ortega-Murillo regime. The journalists are physically marked, but their spirits remain intact.
Read MoreWhile much of Nicaragua was jubilantly following the release of political prisoners on Tuesday, the United States Congress held a public hearing that addressed the national crisis, focused on the actions that country could take regarding the Ortega-Murillo regime…
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