A group of opposition organizations, journalists and human rights defenders, denounced that the withdrawal of Nicaraguan nationality from the 222 political prisoners is an “unconstitutional and incompatible with international law” measure because it takes away their political rights.
The 18 organizations that make up the Nicaragua Lucha Coalition also stressed “the deepening of practices that violate rights that are now becoming more evident with the express reform of article 21 of the Political Constitution,” which establishes the withdrawal of Nicaraguan citizenship from people you consider “traitors to the homeland”.
Said approval, carried out in a totally irregular manner, which also ordered the perpetual disqualification from holding public office and positions of popular election and suspended the lifelong citizen rights of the political prisoners now released, which contravenes all the international human rights standards,” he says. The Nicaraguan Lucha Coalition reproached the suspension of the citizen rights for life of 222 political prisoners who were expelled by the Ortega regime
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“We recognize the resistance and struggle of political prisoners and their families, in time to alert that the cruel phrase of “Prison for Exile” became a reality in Nicaragua, which since 2018 has maintained an authoritarian regime, with absolute control over all powers. of the State and the security forces”, added the Nicaraguan Fighting Coalition.
The group of organizations indicates that they will not stop “raising their voices for the political prisoners who continue to be detained in the country in deplorable conditions of deprivation of liberty and in a total lack of due process.”
The opponents once again called the attention of the “whole world” to continue pressing the Ortega Murillo regime to take the “course” to the reconstitution of the rule of law and democracy in Nicaragua.
Ortega ordered this Thursday, February 9, the exile of 222 political persons to the United States. In addition, he ordered his deputies to urgently approve a constitutional reform to withdraw the detainees’ Nicaraguan citizenship. Now those people are in the United States, under humanitarian parole.
