Not even the rain stopped the protests by exiles and Nicaraguan citizens living in the United States, activists from Nicaraguan human rights organizations, who demanded this Wednesday, outside the OAS, a forceful response against the repressive regime of Daniel Ortega.
Various representatives of entities such as Freedom Fire Nicaragua and Los Autoconvocados de Miami traveled to the capital of the United States, Washington, to protest outside the building of the hemispheric organization that is holding its 53rd General Assembly. «We expect a forceful sentence against the dictator»said Cintia Álvarez, a social activist with Freedom Fire Nicaragua.
«Ortega, listen, we continue in the fight», «Democracy yes, dictatorship no», «Ortega is illegitimate», «They were students, they weren’t criminals.» and «Freedom for political prisoners in Nicaragua»were part of the slogans that the protesters shouted.
They also demanded an end to police and parapolice persecution in Nicaragua. They called for the reestablishment of civic liberties, an end to the violation of human rights in Nicaragua and, above all, justice for the crimes against humanity perpetrated on Ortega’s orders, against defenseless citizens, peasants and students who demanded freedom and democracy for Nicaragua.
in defense of faith
Nicaraguan protesters on the outskirts of the OAS exerting pressure for this organization to issue concrete actions against the Ortega regime.
During the sit-in they demand a return to the rule of law in the country. «We want a free Nicaraguan people, it is a people that gave their blood in 1979 and more recently in 2018, in April, for the same reason; freedom. Any person who opposes the regime is imprisoned or persecuted by the dictator Ortega»they denounced.
They argued that the pursuit of spiritual freedom is an act of tyranny in the extreme. «It is the height of the violation of human rights, spirituality is something very deep in the human being and must be respected»Alvarez said.
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In August of last year, the Organization of American States (OAS) held an extraordinary session in which it condemned the religious persecution carried out by the dictatorial Ortega regime. The resolution approved with 27 votes in favor was presented by Antigua and Barbuda, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, the United States, among other member countries of this organization.
The OAS is celebrating this week the fifty-third regular session of its General Assembly at its headquarters in Washington. Twenty-four delegations from its member countries have confirmed their attendance at the meeting and Nicaragua has been absent since it announced its departure from the organization, because it has asked Ortega to return democracy to the country.
By: United Voices.
