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After 45 days, the Daniel Ortega regime agreed to allow political prisoners – captured between June and November 2021 – to receive, in groups, a visit from their relatives on New Year’s

Three days after making a public complaint about the alleged aggression of a drunken senior police chief against the political prisoner Ana Margarita Vijil, supposedly occurred in her cell at dawn on

In his first homily in 2022, the auxiliary bishop of Managua, Monsignor Silvio José Báez, criticized the “tyrants who subdue and oppress” the people, in order to “secure themselves in power”, and

The independent monitoring of the COVID-19 Citizen Observatory registers an accumulated of 31,326 suspected infections of the coronavirus during the two years of the pandemic. 61% of these infections, more than 19,200,

In 2021, Nicaragua stood out as one of the countries on the continent that restricted freedom of the press and expression, becoming “a bad example”, which was replicated by other countries in

More than 120,000 Nicaraguans left the country in 2021, a year marked by increased repression, the stagnation of an economy in crisis and an uncertain future, after unknown votes by most countries

China inaugurated its embassy in Nicaragua on Friday, three weeks after the restoration of bilateral diplomatic relations after Managua’s break with Taiwan. The flag of China was raised for the first time

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (Oacnudh) and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) expressed their concern about the alleged aggression, by a high official of

2021 was the most risky year to protect human rights in Nicaragua, reported this Friday the non-governmental Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh), which has denounced the local government for the “theft”

The year 2021, in Nicaragua, was marked by the ravages of the second wave of infections and deaths from covid-19; the upsurge in police harassment and imprisonment of opposition leaders; illegal raids