Feminist organizations are alarmed by the wave of violence against women in Nicaragua. Three femicides have been reported in less than two weeks in the month of April and at least 19 women have been murdered in the first four months of the year in national territory and 10 abroad, totaling 29.
Feminist María Teresa Blandón, a political exile from the Ortega and Murillo dictatorship, said that unfortunately a climate of social tolerance and indifference to the violence suffered by women, girls and adolescents in Nicaragua is growing.
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The women consider that it is offensive and irresponsible that the only thing the regime offers is the publication of poorly made primers, that do not even have clear concepts to understand the causes of violence and that it evades pronouncing any responsibility of the State.
The Nicaraguan community in various countries around the world have organized a series of activities in the cities where they live to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Civic Rebellion of April 2018. According to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, 355 Nicaraguans were murdered in the context of the social protests. The demands continue to be freedom, justice and democracy.
The exiles and the diaspora have called for marches, sit-ins, masses, photographic exhibitions and forums in the United States, Spain, Canada, Costa Rica and other countries where there is a community of Nicaraguans who wants to pay tribute to those killed by the Ortega dictatorship and Murillo and demand the release of political prisoners.
The social, political, economic and human rights crisis has forced Nicaraguans to leave the territory in a mass exodus unprecedented in the country’s modern history. International human rights organizations have concluded that crimes against humanity were committed in Nicaragua.
He University Movement April 19 (MU19A) denounced that the university leader Jasson Salazar was taken to a special hearing on April 5, one day after his arbitrary detention became known.
On April 13, according to the organization, the current situation of the 26-year-old opponent was learned, who has accumulated 11 days of being detained by the Ortega Police. Without specifying the cause or the alleged crimes against Salazar, the organization limited itself to reporting that his vice president was placed under the order of the Fifth Court of Hearings of Managua.
He added that the opponent is still detained in District III of the Police, in Managua, where he was transferred after the National Police broke into his house.
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Those close to the family of journalist Víctor Ticay point out that his parents and siblings still do not know the conditions in which the communicator is found, after his illegal detention last Holy Thursday.
Friends and neighbors of the family of the Channel 10 correspondent in the municipality of Nandaime, his mother Cándida Ruiz, a woman over 70 years old, is experiencing moments of anguish because no police agent informs her of her son’s situation, she cannot see him, nor do they tell him if they will release him. Sources revealed to Article 66 that the journalist is being held in El Chipote and would be accused of spreading false news for allegedly violating Law 1042, the Special Law on Cybercrimes.
Deacon Gustavus Wattson, A spokesman for the Diocese of Tilarán-Liberia, Costa Rica, confirmed in a video posted on Facebook that the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo expelled a third nun, a Guatemalan national, from the Congregation Hermanas Dominicas de la Annunciata who administered an asylum of the elderly in the department of Rivas, in Nicaragua.
The nuns were notified by the Ministry of the Interior that they had to leave the country, but they did not receive any justification for their expulsion.
