US EditionNicaragua's Ortega Extends Transnational Persecution of Critics, UN Rights Experts Say
The Ortega government uses digital espionage, asset confiscation, and travel bans to silence thousands of exiles since 2018, U.N. experts report.
- On Tuesday, a United Nations panel of human rights specialists monitoring Nicaragua reported that the country's government is escalating its crackdown on critics living overseas.
- This escalation comes amid ongoing turmoil that began in April 2018, sparked by anti-government demonstrations that were violently suppressed, resulting in approximately 350 fatalities and the displacement of over 100,000 individuals.
- GHREN publicly identified 54 officials in April responsible for systematic repression, detailing digital surveillance and harassment tactics targeting exiles and their families.
- The 36-page report presented in Geneva details widespread actions such as deportation prohibitions, asset seizures, and the use of spyware, noting that secret agents and informants closely monitor the activities and associations of targeted individuals, sometimes engaging in direct harassment and threats.
- Nicaragua formally exited the United Nations Human Rights Council toward the end of February, amid growing transnational repression efforts aimed at suppressing opposition beyond its national borders.
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(AFP) A group of UN experts denounced Tuesday that the Nicaraguan regime has extended repression to critics of dictators Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo (his wife and co-president) outside the country's borders.Read more]]>
Nicaragua's Ortega extends transnational persecution of critics, UN rights experts say
Nicaragua's government is expanding its repression of opponents beyond its borders, targeting Nicaraguans abroad in an escalating campaign to silence critics in exile, the U.N. Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua (GHREN) said on Tuesday.
* They identified that the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship, through the Nicaraguan Army, the police and the foreign service, has a whole complex network of espionage and persecution beyond borders. ** The Group of Experts on Human Rights for Nicaragua presented a report to the UN Human Rights Council. *** In the report “Nicaragua: Pursuit Beyond the Borders. Exile and Transnational Human Rights Violations” he warned about the transnational persecuti…
GENEVA – The Nicaraguan government is spreading its repression against people perceived as opponents beyond its own borders, warned the United Nations Group of Experts on Human Rights on Nicaragua, in a report released on Tuesday 22. US lawyer Reed Brody, a member of the Group, said that “it has [...]
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