The Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (cenidh) urged the defenders and the people of Nicaragua to continue “fighting from wherever they are” for the restoration of respect for human rights in the country, where currently “everyone is violated.”
The members of the organization shared the message this Saturday, December 10, International Human Rights Day; forced to commemorate the dates through social networks in a country where non-governmental demonstrations in the streets are restricted.
In its statement, Cenidh detailed the violation of at least eight fundamental rights by the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. «In Nicaragua, the Ortega Murillo dictatorship does not respect life, it does not respect freedom, there are arbitrary arrests, Nicaraguans are prevented from entering or leaving their own country; in Nicaragua the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion is violated; the right to freedom of opinion and expression is violated; to freedom of assembly and association”, he denounced.
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Vilma Nunez de Escorciapresident of Cenidh, stressed that this year they will commemorate the day “with the same force, with the same enthusiasm, with the same confidence and hope with which we took to the streets every December 10 demanding our rights.”
The organization, whose legal status was taken away by the Ortega-Murillo in 2018, exemplified that the violations are evidenced in the more than 355 murders registered during the social protests of 2018, the 235 political prisoners who are held in subhuman prisons, without the right to health and where they suffer torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment ; disrespect for international law, due process and the right to defense; and in the 128 days of “kidnapping” of Monsignor Rolando Álvarez.
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«Today, that the streets are taken, from the place where we are, let us fight with the same force, that this situation that we have just presented is reversed. Human rights belong to all of us and we must continue fighting for them. No more dictatorship, no more human rights violators,” Núñez added.
Since April 2018, Nicaragua has been experiencing a sociopolitical crisis that in its first year left at least 355 dead, according to the IACHR, and which worsened last November with the elections in which Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, were re-elected in their charges, with seven of their potential rivals in prison and two in exile.
