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The opposition Nicaraguan Democratic Concert (CDN-Monteverde) and the NGO Nicaragua Never Again Collective celebrated this Thursday the release of 135 “political prisoners” from Nicaragua who were exiled to Guatemala after negotiations with Washington and Managua.
In a statement, CDN-Monteverde welcomed the “release of 135 people who were held in prison for political reasons by the Sandinista regime led by Daniel Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo.”
The Nicaraguan opposition movement in exile thanked “the governments of the United States and Guatemala for their efforts to free and welcome these Nicaraguans whose only crime is fighting for a better Nicaragua with democracy, justice and freedom.”
“While we are relieved to know that these 135 people will no longer suffer torture and other human rights violations, we regret that others remain in Nicaraguan prisons for political reasons and we demand their immediate release,” continued the Monteverde CRC, which consists, among other things, of opponents denationalized by the Nicaraguan authorities.
“We hope that with the support of the U.S. and Guatemalan governments, the 135 people released today will soon be able to reunite with their families and resume their lives after the terrible nightmare they faced while defending their ideals for a better world in Nicaragua,” he said.
For his part, Nicaraguan human rights activist Never Again Collective Salvador Marenco stressed that the 135 released people “will no longer be subjected to torture in Nicaraguan prisons, humiliating ill-treatment, physical and psychological violence, threats, isolation and other situations that daily threatened their health, their integrity and even their lives.”
However, he noted that Nicaraguan authorities had committed another human rights violation and “international human rights crime” by expelling 135 “political prisoners” from their country.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Thursday that 135 “political prisoners” that the United States had managed to free in Nicaragua had arrived in Guatemala “healthy and voluntarily,” hours before the White House announced that it had achieved its goal of releasing them.
“These released Nicaraguan citizens will now have the opportunity to seek legal resettlement options in the United States or other countries and begin the process of rebuilding their lives,” he said in a statement.
Released evangelists from the Puerta de la Montaña church ministry.
Among them are 13 members of the Texas-based non-governmental organization Mountain Gateway, which operated in Nicaragua as a ministry of the evangelical church Puerta de la Montaña, as well as Catholic laypeople, students and others whom Ortega and Murillo “consider a threat to their authoritarian government,” Biden’s boss said.
Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo de Leon confirmed that his country welcomed “135 Nicaraguan brothers, freed political prisoners,” after the United States reported the “release” shortly before.
The 135 Nicaraguans arrived “on one flight” at around 6:20 a.m. local time (12:30 GMT) in Guatemala, the country’s Foreign Ministry confirmed.
In February 2023, the Nicaraguan government released 222 political prisoners and expelled them from the country. On that occasion, after their release, they were transferred to Managua International Airport to board a plane to Washington.
Nicaragua has been in a political and social crisis since April 2018, which intensified after the disputed elections in November 2021, in which Ortega was re-elected for a fifth term – his fourth in a row – with his main rivals in prison, whom he later expelled from the country and stripped of their citizenship and political rights, accusing them of “plotting a coup d’état” and “treason”.
EFE
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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