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In the second week of political trials against prisoners of conscience captured between May and December 2021, hearings are scheduled against seven of them, including journalists, political scientists, student leaders and two

The political trials undertaken by the Ortega regime against the prisoners of conscience imprisoned in the El Chipote prison complex do not have “evidential substance” nor “legitimacy of origin,” explained Brazilian jurist

The development of trials against political prisoners Lesther German and Ana Margarita Vijil carried out last week in the Directorate of Judicial Assistance (DAJ), known as El Chipote, was a “circus” orchestrated

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Nicaragua issued a note of protest against his counterpart from El Salvador for the alleged incursion into Nicaraguan territorial waters by four armed vessels from that

Students of the Central American University (UCA) —in interviews with CONFIDENTIAL— affirmed that they are under “general uncertainty”, after learning of the Ortega decision to cancel this week the Polytechnic University (Upoli)recognized

At approximately two in the afternoon on Saturday, November 6, Douglas Alfredo Cerros Lanzas He was leaving his job —at a finance company in Ocotal, Nueva Segovia—, when a colleague asked him

Brian Nichols, United States Deputy Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, pointed out that “Nicaragua is on the way to being expelled from the OAS” during an appearance before the Subcommittee

The journalist and presidential candidate of the Democratic Restoration Party (PRD), Miguel Mora, and the former deputy of the Liberal Constitutionalist Party (PLC), María Fernanda Flores, were the last prisoners of conscience

Violation of due process, denial of the right to defense, excess of functions and confiscation of property; These are some of the “procedural irregularities” incurred by the regime of Daniel Ortega and

The Permanent Foreign Policy Forum (FPPE), an entity made up of academics from Chile with the aim of fostering a foreign policy that promotes democracy, issued a statement condemning the political trials