The Hungarian-born lawyer and human rights activist Reed Bródy, internationally recognized for his hard work in support of international justice, was appointed by the President of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Ambassador Omar Zniber, as a member of the Group of Experts on Human Rights on Nicaragua.
Lawyer Gonzalo Carrión, coordinator of documentation and support for the Nicaragua Never Again Human Rights Collective, said that the appointment itself “demonstrates the concern” of the UN about the human rights situation in Nicaragua.
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“His appointment is the very fact that this team is, as the Nicaraguan would say, one hundred percent ready to fulfill the mandate entrusted to it, which is exactly to continue documenting, in the investigations carried out by the team of experts, and particularly identifying the perpetrators of serious human rights violations, particularly crimes against humanity, which to this day remain in total impunity,” said Carrión.
He also said that the fact that Bródy was chosen as the lawyer to join the group generates “expectations” because “he has a strong reputation for fighting against the impunity of criminals.”
According to the UN’s appointment letter, Bródy was placed in the Group of Experts, replacing Colombian Angela Maria Buitrago, who resigned from her position within the Group, which was created by the Human Rights Council in 2022 in order to “thoroughly examine human rights violations in Nicaragua since April 2018, establish facts, identify those responsible, preserve evidence, make recommendations to improve human rights and access to justice, and collaborate with various stakeholders to support accountability efforts.”
This week, the Sandinista dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo ordered a veritable hunt against indigenous people who have had any kind of relationship with the Miskito leader and presidential advisor Steadman Fagot, who is in prison and his property seized by the police and the army. In addition, many Miskitos have begun to flee to Honduran territory in the face of the militarization of the area.
According to information published by the Nicaraguan media outlet Despacho 505, which cites “sources close” to Fagot, members of the Sandinista Police and the Nicaraguan Army, in service to the dictators, have occupied all of the properties of the indigenous leader, who has been in prison since September 14, one day after having denounced in a press conference that the two armed forces of the regime are “condoning” the invasion of indigenous lands by settlers and also permitting all the violence and crimes that the invaders commit against indigenous communities.
At that same press conference, the advisor on indigenous community affairs warned the dictatorship that the Caribbean people were willing to defend their lands, even with weapons in hand, just as they did in the 1980s, when they fought against the first Sandinista dictatorship.
Joseling Rodríguez became the most recent victim of femicide this year. She was murdered by her ex-partner with at least nine shots, while the woman was walking near the health center in the Jinotegan municipality of Pantasma.
José Samuel Aráuz Blandón, the alleged perpetrator of the crime, was arrested by the police hours after the murder of his ex-partner Rodríguez Argueta, who left behind a minor.
Relatives of the victim say that Rodríguez had ended her relationship with Aráuz two days ago because the subject had recently become violent and possessive, so the young woman decided to live in the municipality of Pantasma.
