The UN Agency for Refugees asked Nicaragua to respect its international obligations and guarantee the enjoyment of the right to nationality and to take measures to prevent and eradicate statelessness, after successive decisions by the government of Daniel Ortega
The UN Agency for Refugees (Acnur) expressed, this Friday, February 17, its concern about the recent decision of the Government of Nicaragua to arbitrarily deprive more than 300 Nicaraguans of their nationality.
The body recalled that the recent legislative reforms that allow the withdrawal of nationality for arbitrary reasons “are contrary to Nicaragua’s obligations under international and regional human rights law.”
In addition, he pointed out that international law prohibits the arbitrary deprivation of nationality for racial, ethnic, religious or political reasons and indicated that exercising fundamental rights such as freedom of expression, freedom of assembly or others, can never justify the deprivation of nationality. .
The Agency asked Nicaragua, “which is a party to both the 1954 Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention for the Reduction of Statelessness, to respect its international obligations and guarantee the enjoyment of the right to nationality and to take measures to prevent and eradicate statelessness”.
The ruler Daniel Ortega released 222 political prisoners early on Thursday, February 9, and exiled them to the United States and then, after reforming the Constitution, deprived them of their Nicaraguan nationality.
On February 16, the Government of Nicaragua stripped of his nationality to 94 opponents to the administration of Daniel Ortega, also declaring them “traitors to the country” for the alleged commission of the crimes of conspiracy.
Of that total of 316 people, at least 22 Nicaraguan journalists, critical of the regime of Daniel Ortegahave been declared “traitors to the homeland” and stripped of their nationality, said on Thursday, February 16, the movement Independent Journalists and Communicators of Nicaragua (PCIN).
Press release from the ONU.
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