Within the framework of the 41st Congress of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its centenary of foundation, the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh) denounced the serious human rights crisis under the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
The president of Cenidh, Vilma Núñez de Escorcia, emphasized that the priority is to achieve the unconditional release of the more than 219 political prisoners who are in the regime’s prisons.
«Cenidh asked FIDH to help Nicaraguans to achieve justice and achieve the freedom of more than 200 innocent people. Their lives are in danger,” the agency reported in its social accounts.
The Cenidh is part of the more than 2,400 non-governmental organizations that have been canceled by the Ortega and Murillo dictatorship since December 2018. As a show of solidarity and support for the Cenidh and Nicaragua, the FIDH decided to use, during one of the days of the congress, t-shirts with the logo and slogan of the Nicaraguan NGO.
“For one day the participants will wear our shirt and slogan “right that is not defended is right that is lost” in solidarity with Nicaragua and Cenidh. Thank you FIDH for 100 years of support for persecuted human rights defenders in the world,” Cenidh said in a video posted on its social networks.
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FIDH has spoken on several occasions about the situation in Nicaragua, especially about the persecution of human rights defenders by the Ortega and Murillo dictatorship, the closure of NGOs, the repression against the opposition and the socio-political crisis in Nicaragua. since 2018.
Since April 2018, Nicaragua has been experiencing a serious social, political, economic and human rights crisis unleashed by the bloody repression of the dictatorship against the population that demonstrated against failed social security reforms. That repression left a balance of 355 people assassinated. International organizations documented that crimes were committed in the country Crimes against humanity.
