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Situation human rights V Nicaragua continued to collapse in the first months of 2023, which is highlighted today United Nations office For Human rightswho appealed to the government
Situation human rights V Nicaragua continued to collapse in the first months of 2023, which is highlighted today United Nations office For Human rightswho appealed to the government Daniel Ortega an end to practices such as deprivation Nicaraguan citizenship to dissidents.
In an updated situation report Nicaragua from December on the proposal of the Deputy Secretary General UN For Human rights, Ilse Brands Keriscondemned this arbitrary measure applied to more than 300 people since it was approved in early February.
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“The office has received information that their birth certificates are being removed from the Nicaraguan civil registry,” Brands said, noting that at least 37 people they continue to be arbitrarily deprived of their liberty in the context of the socio-political crisis that the country is going through.
Among the detainees, Brands singled out the case bishop Diocese of Matagalpa Rolando AlvarezSentenced to 26 years And four months in jail for being found guilty of treason and refusing to be deported.
The verdict was handed down “without prior trial,” said Brands, who demanded the unconditional release of Alvarez and the others. 36 detainees arbitrarily.
In January and February, he added, sentences up to 10 years in prison against 30 people who dared to criticize the government, among them activists, journalists And priests in lawsuits without due process of law, often in closed hearings, to which access denied defendants and their lawyers.
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (@OHCHR) calls on the State of Nicaragua to release unconditionally the 37 people who are still being arbitrarily deprived of their liberty.#HRC52 pic.twitter.com/smngb4eZ1X
— UN Human Rights Council 📍#HRC52 (@UN_HRC) March 3, 2023
Many of them were not allowed to have prior knowledge of accusations under which they were tried, which made it difficult for them to appeal the verdict, Brands denounced.
These are “arbitrary and disproportionate measures, some of which are retroactive, that violate international obligations Nicaragua in questions human rights and they are finished intimidate“said the person in charge United Nations.
Brands also reminded about systematic persecution from the authorities of Nicaragua Civil Society Organizationsmore than 3200 of them have been deprived of legal personality since 2018, and their objects confiscated.
Another sign of the deterioration of fundamental freedoms, he denounced, is limitation many rights for people who do not have ruling party membership cardwhich deprives them of access to public officeTo higher education and in extreme cases health care.
“In one case, a person was denied surgery until they signed up for the game,” Brands told the court. Human Rights Councilwhere he also denounced the persistent violations of the rights indigenous villages V Nicaragua.
Deterioration of freedom in Nicaraguahe said, “is evidence of an increase in the number of people leaving the country”, which, according to United Nations Refugee Agencythere are already more 260 000Many of them fled to Costa Rica and the United States.
“In light of the ongoing social and political crisis, now in its sixth year, we call on this Council to closely monitor the situation in the country and promote all measures leading to its turning point,” Brands concluded.
In a response letter, the Attorney General Nicaragua, Wendy Moralesexpressed his “total rejection” of the report, which “like others prepared by this body, is prepared with partial, biased and subjective information that only seeks to distort our goal of achieving abundance, the common good and peace for our nation.”
The report, in his opinion, takes data “from groups that seek to manipulate the truth of the country, wishing to impose the economic interests of the imperialist countries.”
(EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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