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Ortega government commits crimes against humanity: UN experts

  • March 2, 2023
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In the latest report Human Rights Expert Group on Nicaragua Human Rights Council UNgeneral human rights violations committed by the Government of Nicaragua were confirmed to be Crimes

In the latest report Human Rights Expert Group on Nicaragua Human Rights Council UNgeneral human rights violations committed by the Government of Nicaragua were confirmed to be Crimes against humanity against the Nicaraguans political voice.

The commission, composed of three experts, accused the government of Daniel Ortega do and keep doing abuse To Individual Guarantees civilians, ranging from extrajudicial executions and torture to deprivation of citizenship and expulsion from the country. These actions, according to the group, do not constitute an isolated phenomenon, but are “the product of dismantling deliberate democratic institutions and the destruction of civic and democratic space.”

“The highest authorities of the government managed to instrumentally use the executive, legislative, judicial and electoral authorities to develop and implement a legal framework aimed at suppress implementation fundamental freedoms and persecute oppositionists,” expert Jan Simon assured. He added that “the goal eliminatedifferent ways, any opposition in the country”.

The report indicated a pattern extrajudicial executions agents of the National Police against demonstrators during the 2018 protests. It also found that the National Penitentiary System had committed “acts torture physical and psychological, including sexual abuse and gender.” In addition, the Government of Nicaragua was found to have used arbitrary arrestswithout a court order to silence Ortega’s critics.

“Thousands of human rights defenders, NGO workers, activists, journalists, student, religious and creative leaders, as well as major national and territorial leaders of the political opposition were forced leave the country”, said expert Angela Maria Buitrago.

In February of this year, the Nicaraguan authorities revoked the citizenship of 222 citizens, including writers, journalists, activists, religious figures and human rights activists. A few weeks later, the Managua Court of Appeal pointed out how “traitors to the motherland” 94 more people, depriving them of their citizenship and ordering the confiscation of their property in favor of the state.

The group concluded that the President Daniel Ortega and vice president Rosario Murillo They carried out these crimes and continue to do so to this day. Likewise, he asked the government of the Central American country to release all the people who were took away his freedom and take research about committed offenses and crimes.

“Today, the state and the international community have this information to take action,” Jan Simon concluded, calling for the start legal action against persons and institutions involved in violations.

Reuters

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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