Nicaragua: many opponents arbitrarily deprived of their liberty since 2018
In the streets of Managua, March 30, 2020 (illustrative image).
The opposition currently has more than 100 jailed dissidents.
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More than 1,600 opponents in Nicaragua have been the victims of arbitrary detention since 2018, for having participated in demonstrations against the government of Daniel Ortega or for having encouraged them, denounced, Wednesday, December 3, the Inter-American Commission on the Rights of the man (CIDH).
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The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), which emanates from
the Organization of American States
, "
has succeeded in establishing that 1,614 people have been arbitrarily deprived of their liberty, for their participation in or support for social demonstrations
", between April 2018 and May 2020, indicates a report published in Washington.
These opponents, who were in the majority of cases released, had been detained in crowded and unsanitary cells, without sufficient beds, and sometimes in solitary confinement, the report said.
100,000 opponents in exile
In Nicaragua, protests that began in April 2018 were aimed at opposing social security reform.
Then the protesters demanded the departure of the president, because of the unease caused by the violent repression exercised against the demonstrators by the government.
According to the report entitled "People Deprived of Liberty in Nicaragua amid Human Rights Crisis", the repression has left at least 328 dead and more than 100,000 opponents have gone into exile.
Expulsion from an IACHR commission
The arrests were from the outset massive and violent with the intention of "
punishing or suppressing a position of opposition to the current Nicaraguan regime
," says the document.
The opposition currently has more than 100 jailed dissidents.
For the government, the reports issued by the IACHR on Nicaragua are biased.
In December 2018, the government expelled an IACHR commission that had visited Nicaragua to monitor the implementation of recommendations made by the body to overcome the political crisis in the country.
(
with AFP
)
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