Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) called to Nicaragua allow celebration religious processions, after government Daniel Ortega banned them.

“His total ban violates Liberty a religion that requires all people to be able to practice it individually and collectively, both in the private and in the public sphere,” he warned.

Government of Nicaragua through National Police, p.The Church has been banned from taking saints to the streets since February last year, when it did not allow them to perform viacruzis during Great post.

The police order came after Nicaraguan President and Supreme National Police Chief Daniel Ortega branded priests, bishops, cardinals and Pope Francis as “mafia”.

As a result, in February, judicial officials close to Ortega delivered a verdict on the Catholic bishop. Rolando Alvarezan outspoken critic of the government, to 26 years in prison after he was convicted of treason and other charges, one day after the cleric refused to be expelled to USA.

With this in mind, the High Commissioner of OHCHR, Volker Turkasked the authorities to release the archbishop and 37 other people from religious institutions who were “arbitrarily detained”.

For its part, the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Senid) On his social media, he condemned that “the ban on Lent and Holy Week processions in Nicaragua is a flagrant violation of freedom of conscience, religion and freedom of expression.”

“This year, without marches at the national level, Holy Week will be incomplete, mutilated, there will be no popular participation, but in the face of so many repressions, the fervor of the people must resist and strengthen,” he said. an organization that predicted that “sooner or later, the Nicaraguans will march again and be free.”