The report detailed that 355 people died, including 27 children and adolescents, in the context of the 2018 anti-government demonstrations.
In Nicaragua “crimes against humanity are committed” under the responsibility of the Government of President Daniel Ortega, according to a report presented this Thursday by 15 humanitarian organizations in Nicaragua, and endorsed by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
“In Nicaragua, crimes against humanity are committed within the framework of State terrorism and a Police State of Exception,” said the so-called “Truth Report ‘Dictatorship and Repression in Nicaragua: Fight Against Impunity'”.
This is a study of each of the “stages of state action”, which began in April 2018, “from the generalized repression to the citizen demonstration, the imposition of a State of Terror and ‘Operation Cleanup’ ”, in which hundreds of people died.
He also cited “the criminalization of social protest, arbitrary arrests, political prisoners, the prohibition of social protest, the path to a State of Exception, express kidnappings, torture and evidence of clandestine prisons.”
In addition, “the imprisonment and criminalization of electoral opponents”, the latter in view of the elections of last day 7, in which Ortega was reelected amid questions to his legitimacy, due to the arrest of seven politicians who were emerging as his main contenders.
The report detailed that in the context of the 2018 anti-government demonstrations, 355 people died, including 27 children and adolescents, 2,000 were injured, more than 1,614 were imprisoned, “hundreds” of health professionals, teachers and students, were “fired ”Or“ expelled ”, and more than 100,000 people fled Nicaragua, among them almost a hundred journalists.
“Closure of democratic spaces”
The president of the IACHR, Antonia Urrejola, said during the online presentation of the report that the document is “in line” with “all the reports that the Commission has made.”
Urrejola added that in 2018 “the State of Nicaragua carried out conduct that, according to international law, should be considered crimes against humanity”, and stated that “now, regrettably, the closure of democratic spaces has intensified, which seeks to prevent any form of demonstration against the Government ”.
What’s more made a call “for the cessation of torture and isolation against women imprisoned in the ‘El Chipote’ prison, and especially for the immediate release of the 160 political prisoners ”.
The report, presented by the NGOs Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh), the Articulation of Social Movements (AMS), Penal Action, the Human Rights Collective Nicaragua Never Again, among others, lamented the lack of justice in the country’s case. Central American.
“The whole world knows the atrocities that continue to take place today under President Ortega’s regime. However, more than three years after the beginning of this crisis and in a context of corruption, electoral fraud and structural impunity, no progress has been made in processes of memory, truth, justice, reparation and the return to democracy ”, they indicated.
In that sense, they proposed to the UN the installation of an “Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Nicaragua”.
The study also included the Center for Justice and Human Rights of the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua, the Group of Political Ex-prisoners, Political Prisoners Nicaragua, the Nicaraguan Defenders Initiative, the Autonomous Movement of Women, Nicaraguans in the World, Journalists and Communicators of Nicaragua, Popol Na, Legal Defense Unit, Registry Unit, and the Union of Political Prisoners and Prisoners of Nicaragua. (I)
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