( Spanish) — “Dozens” of human rights defenders, journalists, leaders of social movements, among others, were temporarily detained on Wednesday by the regime of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, the Nicaraguan Fight Coalition denounced in a statement on Thursday.
The entity, which brings together human rights organizations and independent journalists, among others, said that the people were “arbitrarily detained” and charged “without due process in secret hearings at dawn,” and then released under a measure to appear periodically before the police. Justice.
The newspaper La Prensa also reported that at least 55 people had been temporarily detained, accused of charges such as treason against the Homeland, propagation of false news and disturbance of public order.
Until this Thursday, neither the National Police, the Judiciary, the Public Ministry or the pro-government media had reported on the arrests. In her traditional call to the regime-affiliated media, Vice President Rosario Murillo also did not address the issue this Thursday.
tries to get feedback through the regime’s Communication and Citizenship Council.
The Coalition added in its statement that it was asking the Ortega regime to stop what it called “a persecution.”
In February, Nicaragua expelled more than 200 prisoners and sent them to the United States. The US government said then that the Ortega regime had unilaterally decided to expel imprisoned opponents from the country.
The deportees were declared “traitors to the homeland and punished for different serious crimes and permanently disqualified from exercising public office, as well as holding positions of popular election, leaving their citizen rights perpetually suspended,” Octavio Rothschuh said then, magistrate of the court of appeals of Managua.
