The international human rights organization Raza e Igualdad published an account of the repression carried out by Daniel Ortega that they affirm has “increased” in 2022, with the growing list of political prisoners, the closure of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and attacks to independent media.
«The authoritarian regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo continues to systematically violate human rights. There are 225 private persons
of freedom for political reasons since 2018, including 36 elderly people and 26 women exposed to gender-based violence and without differentiated risks,” says the defense organization.
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Race and Equality He also denounced that in the Central American country the regime continues to violate freedom of association with the closure of more than 3,000 national and international NGOs. Different organizations have classified this year’s situation as “the worst wave of cancellation of legal entities” since 2018.
The Government of Nicaragua, through the Ministry of the Interior or via legislative decree, has dissolved 3,106 Nicaraguan NGOs and those of other nationalities after the popular protests that broke out in April 2018 in that country.
In addition, they reiterate that the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship has ignored the calls from the United Nations Organization (UN), Committee for the Elimination of Racism and Discrimination (CERD) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights , the same organizations with which Nicaragua has signed commitment treaties with human rights.
Race and Equality recorded during this year “90 attacks on indigenous peoples of the northern Caribbean Coast, which resulted in 32 murders. 26 attacks against national and international media that resulted in their closure. Likewise, 70,000 new Nicaraguan asylum applications were recorded in Costa Rica, and 147,000 Nicaraguans have reached the US border.
Recently, the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh) detailed the violation of at least eight fundamental rights by the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. «In Nicaragua, the Ortega Murillo dictatorship does not respect life, it does not respect freedom, there are arbitrary arrests, Nicaraguans are prevented from entering or leaving their own country; in Nicaragua the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion is violated; the right to freedom of opinion and expression is violated; to freedom of assembly and association”, he denounced.
Nicaragua has been going through a political and social crisis since April 2018, which has worsened after the controversial general elections of November 7, 2021, in which Ortega was re-elected for a fifth term, fourth in a row and second along with his wife, Rosario Murillo. , as vice president, with her main contenders in prison or in exile.
