Tag: Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (CENIDH)

• Monday, August 16th 2021 - 06:12 UTC

  Nicaraguan daily shut down by gov't, manager placed under arrest

  

  In addition to arresting in the past two months almost every opposition politician who might challenge President Daniel Ortega's quest for another term in office in the upcoming November 7 elections, the Nicaraguan regime this weekend raided the La Prensa newsdesk and placed its general manager in detention.

• Monday, July 26th 2021 - 07:27 UTC

  Nicaraguan gov't arrests yet another presidential candidate

  

  The Nicaraguan regime of former Sandinista guerrilla leader Daniel Ortega has placed right-wing presidential hopeful Noel José Vidaurre Arguello under house arrest for alleged treason.

• Wednesday, August 1st 2018 - 08:04 UTC

  Ortega admits armed and masked paramilitaries were a “volunteer police”

  

  Nicaragua's veteran leader Daniel Ortega defended brutal action by his forces against anti-government protesters, as the United States warned he and his wife were “ultimately responsible” for deaths and rights violations.

• Friday, June 15th 2018 - 10:48 UTC

  Ortega launches deadly police and paramilitary repression against activists in Nicaragua

  

  Activists faced off with Nicaraguan pro-government forces in hours of deadly clashes on Thursday amid a nationwide strike to protest government repression of dissent that has left at least 162 dead, including an altar boy. Despite the 24-hour work stoppage that gave the capital Managua the air of a ghost town, fierce unrest in other areas persisted, leaving at least four dead during pro-government attacks on activists guarding barricades.