The international organization Race and Equality launched its campaign entitled “Nicaragua, four years of impunity” demanding “truth, justice, reparation and non-repetition for crimes against humanity” committed by the Daniel Ortega regime four years of the civic struggle of the Nicaraguan people.
«On the fourth anniversary of the sociopolitical and human rights crisis in Nicaragua, the Institute on Race, Equality and Human Rights (Race and Equality) launches the campaign “Nicaragua, four years of impunity” to denounce the serious violations of human rights that continue to occur in the Central American country,” says the document.
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The organization intends to “join the demands for processes that guarantee truth, justice, comprehensive reparation for victims and non-repetition for crimes against humanity perpetrated in the framework of the violent and systematic repression of the civic rebellion of April 2018. »
“Likewise, Race and Equality urges the international community to send a message to fight against impunity,” says the statement from the human rights defense organization. In addition, they reject that since April 18, 2018, Nicaragua “is experiencing a deep crisis characterized by state and para-state repression, the prolonged violation of the rule of law, restrictions on civic space and the persistence of a situation of generalized impunity.”
“This situation is manifested in severe human rights violations that to date have resulted in: 355 unpunished lethal victims, more than 2,000 injured protesters, at least 1,614 arbitrary detentions, the exile of more than 110,000 Nicaraguans, the increasing criminalization of the exercise journalism, the closure of more than 114 civil society organizations, the resurgence of attacks against indigenous peoples and Afro-descendants of the Caribbean Coast, and the permanence of more than 170 political prisoners in conditions that violate the Minimum Rules of the Nations United States for the Treatment of Prisoners”, emphasizes Race and Equality.
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They assure that the regime continues to fail to comply with all the recommendations of the international human rights mechanisms for the reestablishment of democratic institutions and guarantee human rights in the country. At the same time, they reject the “electoral fraud” of November 2021.
The campaign aims to make visible the “serious human rights abuses in Nicaragua, the hard work of civil society organizations in the search for justice, and the position of the international community in this deep crisis,” says the statement issued from Washington. , USA.
