Nicaragua announced on Thursday his departure from the United Nations Human Rights Council “and of all its dependencies” in rejection of a report presented a day before by a group of experts appointed by the agency to investigate abuse in the Central American country in recent years.
The announcement was made by the spokeswoman of the Government and Co -President Rosario Murillo on National Television, who cataloged the “false and full of slander” report.
“Nicaragua transmits its sovereign and irrevocable decision to withdraw from the Human Rights Council and all its satellite mechanisms. These disrespectful mechanisms lost their decency, we do not recognize them,” Murillo said.
“The report of the self -denominated group of experts, which Nicaragua does not recognize it … They are an evidence of the double standard and the politicization of each of these mechanisms, which daily instrumentalize human rights,” the government spokeswoman continued.
The report presented one day before by the group of human rights experts for Nicaragua-a committee established by the United Nations in 2022 to investigate the human rights violations of the Sandinista government in massive protests of 2018-revealed the complicity of the Nicaraguan Army in repression of opponents.
The protests in 2018 left more than 300 dead and thousands of injured and exiled, according to activist groups and human rights.
Murillo cataloged the Human Rights Council as a “colonialist” organism that “does not comply with the mission for which it was created.”
This movement of the Government of Nicaragua of the forums is not unique. In November 2021 the Nicaraguan government also announced its Departure from the Organization of American States (OAS) which took place two years later.
The then chancellor of Nicaragua, Denis Moncada, said that the agency was an “interference instrument.” The OAS building was subsequently confiscated.
Nicaragua lives a socio -political crisis since 2018 that anti -government protests emerged which the Sandinista government cataloged as an alleged “coup attempt.”
The Ortega government, which has been in the power for more than 15 years, has banned all kinds of critical manifestations after such protests and has made constitutional reforms to fence the space to the opponents, according to human rights organizations.
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