This Thursday, September first, the administration of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo ordered the confiscation of the facilities of the Matagalpa Women’s Collective, organization that a year ago was stripped of its legal personality.
Through its social networks, the feminist organization denounced that the Ortega Police illegally occupied the property where they operated.
“A year ago the dictatorship arbitrarily stripped the Matagalpa Women’s Collective of legal personality, and today, September 1, 2022, they arrived at the facilities where the Matagalpa Women’s Collective was located, despite the fact that the owners are already other people. “, he pointed.
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He explained that “early this morning police, riot police and civilians arrived, opening the doors by force and raiding the property. A reference person went to the premises to find out what they intend to do with this raid, a police officer told him that only the chief of police could give information, but he did not come out to provide it.
Given this situation, the Mesoamerican Initiative of Human Rights Defenders (IM-Defensoras) issued an urgent alert for the seizure of the building where the NGO operated. “They report that the Police are illegally occupying and confiscating the facilities of the Matagalpa Women’s Collective,” the organization wrote in its Twitter account. Twitter.
The Articulation of Social Movements also referred to the confiscation of the organization’s assets. “We express our condemnation of the criminal dictatorship that curtails the rights of women in Nicaragua every day,” said the group.
The Matagalpa Women’s Collective denounced that the occupation of the property where they operated “is a raid and dispossession of a common good, of a collective good. It is one more violation of human rights and specifically of feminist women.
“This is an act of state violence,” said the organization, which was outlawed on August 26, 2021.
After the annulment of the organizations, it is established that the belongings and shares «will have, after liquidation, the destination foreseen in the Constitutive act or in its Statute. If nothing has been arranged in this regard, these will become the property of the State in accordance with the Law of the matter.
IM-Defenders reports that the closure of the NGOs generates a «serious impact on the rights of Nicaraguan womenleaving them in a situation of greater vulnerability, exposure to violence and the violation of their fundamental rights».
