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The human rights crisiscontinues to deepen” in Nicaraguawhere civil society cannot participate in social and political life.”freely and safely“, states the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in a report published this Thursday.
Between April 18, 2018 and August 31, 2023, Nicaragua canceled the legal status of 3,390 organizations out of a total of 7,227 registered in the country in 2018, when government protests broke out and left around 300 people dead.
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O IACHR consider it an attack”to pluralism“demonstrating intent”completely close civic and democratic space” in the country.
In Nicaragua “A policy of repression and systematic persecution prevails against anyone considered contrary to the government through the imposition of a police state.”, he denounces.
These restrictions “were possible due to the subordination of all public powers to the Executive” and the absence of “limits and balances”.
The IACHR cites, for example, the fact that the National Assembly facilitated the approval of norms and legal reforms by the president’s government Daniel Ortegare-elected in 2021 with his rivals in prison or exile.
Furthermore, the appeals filed against these regulations lost all meaning due to “the lack of independence of the judiciary”.
“As a consequence of this repressive escalation“dozens of organizations and activists”were forced into exile“and those who are still in the country”They would work clandestinely, in a climate of fear, persecution and self-censorship“, he points out.
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“Nicaraguan authorities generally follow a pattern: they ban demonstrations and then carry out arbitrary arrests,”more than 2,000″ since April 18, 2018, and carry out defamation and harassment campaigns.
Furthermore, the organization claims to have evidence that it withdraws and retains passports or refuses to issue them to prevent people from leaving abroad. And others are prevented from returning to the country.
The IACHR is a body of the Organization of American States (OAS), of which Nicaragua will cease to be a member on November 19, at the express will of Ortega.
Source: Elcomercio
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