The Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh) denounces that the regime of Daniel Ortega “out of fear deepened the repression on the fourth anniversary of the social outbreak of April 2018.” The organization collected 64 incidents and 20 complaints of repression carried out by the dictatorship.
«The Ortega-Murillo regime felt fear and deepened the repression against opponents, those released from prison and relatives of the victims. Throughout the country there was a deployment of patrols and motorcycles to carry out permanent surveillance and silence opposition voices. 20 complaints received by the Cenidh, via telephone, and 64 incidents, mostly harassment, raids, arbitrary arrests and other attacks, “the agency states through a statement issued on social networks.
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They highlight the arrests of musicians, on April 12, as a “flagrant violation of individual freedom and freedom of expression, “the authorities” continue without clarifying the reason for the hunt, except for the one that all of Nicaragua knows: THEY WANT TO SILENCE THEIR VOICES AND ALL KINDS OF SOCIAL PROTEST. Through the media it was learned that the singer-songwriters Josué Monroy and Sumernage and the managers of Saxo Producciones, Salvador Espinoza and Xochilt Tapia, were forced to leave Nicaragua, their own country.
The reasons for the arrests and expulsion of Nicaraguan musicians and critics of the Daniel Ortega regime are unknown; however, in the case of Monroy, his arrest comes after his musical band recently gave a concert in tribute to the victims of the April 2018 repression. The national artists were detained while they were in their homes and without explanation they were They were taken into custody without mentioning to which police station they would be transferred.
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Organizations such as the Mesoamerican Initiative of Women Human Rights Defenders also joined this complaint, pointing out that the Daniel Ortega regime has intensified its policy of terror in the framework of the fourth anniversary of the civic insurrection, accounting for 156 attacks against opponents in just 10 days. .
The agency’s report states that “we have recorded 156 attacks against women human rights defenders in Nicaragua. Of these, 147 correspond to personal attacks against defenders and the remaining 9 against organizations that defend women’s rights or are made up of defenders. Aggressions have been reported in 60% of the country’s departments and in one of the Autonomous Regions of the Caribbean Coast.
