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Nicaragua: A continuum of repression and systematic human rights violations under the Ortega-Murillo government

Nicaragua's human rights crisis persists five years after the government cracked down on peaceful protests against social security reforms....

Nicaragua: The Ortega government’s new pattern of repression

In February 2023, the Nicaraguan government deported 300 people, many of them human rights activists, and stripped them of their...

Nicaragua: 222 people stripped of citizenship, deported to U.S.

The 222 Nicaraguans had been held under arbitrary detention in their home country for exercising their rights....

Nicaragua: UN accountability mechanism is a crucial step towards justice

31 March 2022 In response to the adoption today of a resolution by the United Nations Human Rights Council that...

Nicaragua: International organizations set out five reasons why elections do not guarantee the exercise of human rights

In the run up to the general elections in Nicaragua, scheduled for 7 November, Amnesty International, the Center for Justice...

Nicaragua: Enforced disappearance is the new tactic for repression

The enforced disappearance of people is the latest tactic that authorities in Nicaragua have adopted to silence any criticism or...

Nicaragua: Amnesty International launches campaign a year and a half since the crisis began and demands that the government stop the repression

The Nicaraguan government must end the repressive strategy it has pursued since 18 April 2018 and which currently includes implementing...

Nicaragua: Police operation points to continuing lethal repression

In the early hours of 17 July, Bryan Murillo López died as a result of shots fired by members of...

Nicaragua: Ortega government continues to violate the right to freedom of press

Ahead of World Press Freedom Day and more than a year since the Nicaraguan government launched its strategy of repression...

Nicaragua: Report by independent experts affirms that the government of President Ortega has committed crimes against humanity

In response to the publication of the “Report on the Acts of Violence Occurred Between April 18 and May 30,...

Nicaragua: Attack on CENIDH is a blow for human rights

In response to the decree by Nicaragua’s National Assembly cancelling the legal registration of the Nicaraguan Centre for Human Rights...

Nicaragua: Authorities stepped up strategy for repression, committing grave human rights violations during ‘clean-up operation’

From the beginning of June, the government of President Daniel Ortega intensified its strategy for repression in a so-called “clean-up”...

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