US EditionNicaragua ramping up repression of exiles: UN experts
Nicaragua targets exiled dissidents with surveillance, threats, and legal actions to suppress opposition, UN experts say.
- The Nicaraguan government has intensified repression of political exiles through constitutional reforms, enabling impunity and exposing victims to reprisals across borders.
- Since 2023, the government has stripped 452 Nicaraguans of their nationality and rendered thousands of other exiles stateless by refusing to renew documents.
- UN experts called on Nicaragua to dismantle the 'architecture of repression', ensure accountability, and guarantee the rights of all Nicaraguans, including exiles.
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Geneva, Switzerland. Nicaragua maintains a “extensive” transnational network to monitor and intimidate opponents in exile, which affects “hundreds of thousands” of people, the UN Group of Experts on Human Rights warned on Tuesday. A report prepared by the experts “details an extensive transnational surveillance and intelligence architecture used to monitor, intimidate and attack the hundreds of thousands of Nicaraguans living abroad,” the Group …
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Nicaragua’s Government is financing the repression of its opponents through illegal misuse of public funds and targeting exiles through a transnational surveillance and intelligence network, the UN Group of Independent Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua warned in its latest report on Tuesday.
Nicaragua maintains a “extensive” transnational network to monitor and intimidate opponents in exile, which affects “hundreds of thousands” of people, the UN Group of Experts on Human Rights warned on Tuesday. A report prepared by the experts “details an extensive transnational surveillance and intelligence architecture used to monitor, intimidate and attack the hundreds of thousands of Nicaraguans living abroad,” the Group of Experts on Human R…
“The Nicaraguan government is financing the repression of its opponents through the illegal diversion of public funds and the persecution of exiles through a transnational surveillance and intelligence network.” This warning was issued in a report by the UN Group of Experts on Human Rights* on the Central American country. The text presented […]
Human Rights Council: Nicaragua ramping up repression of exiles: UN experts
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