The Government of the United Kingdom assured that, four years after the repression carried out by the Daniel Ortega regime against the people of Nicaragua, it continues “pressing for a return to democracy and for the release of political prisoners.”
The Minister of Foreign Affairs for Latin America and the Caribbean, Vicki Ford, reiterated that the British administration has sanctioned 14 Ortega officials “for undermining democracy and human rights,” among them; Rosario Murillo.
“Four years ago Ortega violently repressed the democratic protests in Nicaragua. The UK has sanctioned 14 Nicaraguan leaders for undermining democracy and human rights. We continue to press for a return to democracy and for the release of political prisoners », the diplomat wrote in her account of Twitter.
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The list of those sanctioned by the United Kingdom heads it Rosario Murillo, vice president of Nicaragua, wife of Ortega and spokeswoman for the regime. The other political operators accompanying her are: Lumberto Ignacio Campbell Hooker, magistrate of the Supreme Electoral Council, the Attorney General of the Republic, Ana Julia Guido Ochoa; Fidel Moreno, general secretary of the Mayor’s Office of Managua; Police Commissioners Juan Valle Valle and Fidel Domínguez; Alba Luz Ramos, president of the Supreme Court of Justice; and Gustavo Porras, president of the National Assembly; all also blacklisted in the United States.
They have also designated sanctions for the commissioner and deputy director of the Ortega Police in the department of Masaya, Ramón Antonio Avellán; the former Minister of Health, Sonia Castro González; the director general of the National Police and in-law of the presidential couple, commissioner Francisco Javier Díaz; the presidential adviser, Néstor Moncada; the general commissioner of the Directorate of Judicial Assistance (DAJ), commissioner Luis Pérez Olivas; and the head of the Directorate of Special Police Operations (DOEP), Commissioner Justo Pastor.
The United Kingdom has repeatedly demanded from the Ortega administration the immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners; and the full restoration of their civil and political rights.
Four years after the civic rebellion, Nicaraguan defenders have denounced that “the siege, repression, migration and impunity continue for the victims who, on the contrary, only suffer the persecution of the Ortega regime and its paramilitaries.”
