The Nicaraguan human rights collective Never Again compared this Friday to the Nicaraguan President, Daniel Ortegawith dictators Adolf Gitler (Germany) and Augusto Pinochet (Chile) for stripping critics and opponents of his government of their natural citizenship, which he called a crime against humanity.

“Seeing that his attempt to silence these Nicaraguans had failed, the Ortega Murillo regime decided to expel them. practice used by the Nazis and Adolf Hitlerin Germany and dictator Augusto Pinochet in Chile,” said the Collective, made up mostly of exiled Nicaraguan activists and based in San Jose.

In a statement on the first anniversary of the release and expulsion of 222 Nicaraguan political prisoners, the organization said that between human rights violations committed by OrtegaComplicit with the legislature and judiciary against these people is Article 9 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states that “no one shall be arbitrarily detained, imprisoned or exiled.”

In addition, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court considered a crime against humanity “The forced displacement of affected persons by expulsion or other coercive action from the area in which they are lawfully present, without reasons permitted by international law,” he said.

Ortega uses statelessness as a pressure mechanism

This Collective recalled that on February 9, 2023, the Ortega administration “arbitrarily” stripped the citizenship of 222 political prisoners, as well as Bishop Rolando Alvarez, and then 94 other Nicaraguans, “turning them stateless, depriving them of all rights.” international obligations that bind the State of Nicaragua respect the right to citizenship and related rights.”

Likewise, the organization noted that more than 100 additional Nicaraguans are “de facto” stateless because they were not allowed to enter their country.

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“These measures demonstrate and indicate that great mechanism of state repression is being used by the dictatorship of Nicaragua against various people in order to silence them,” he warned.

Likewise, the Collective deplored and condemned the use of statelessness “dictatorship” of Nicaragua as a mechanism of repressionand once again called on the international community not to forget the people who were denied the right to be Nicaraguans and those who were not allowed to enter their own country, expelling them “de facto” and making them stateless.

Request to the international community

“The dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo is the one that betrayed the country, it is responsible for this and other crimes against humanity and precisely the one who will sooner or later have to face justice,” he added.

The organization advocated that February 9th should be “a day of pride in being Nicaraguans and a date on which we unite as patriots to protect a better future what our country deserves.”

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He also called on democracies around the world to continue to put pressure on the Nicaraguan regime so that democracy, justice and freedom can exist.

Nicaragua has been experiencing a political and social crisis since April 2018, which intensified after the disputed general elections in November 2021, in which President Ortega, in power since 2007, was re-elected to a fifth term, fourth in a row and second, along with his wife Rosario Murillo, as vice president against his main rivals. in prison or in exile. (EFE)