US EditionTwo Opposition Figures Die in Nicaragua State Custody
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Fifteen days after being arrested by Nicaraguan police forces, lawyer and opponent Carlos Cárdenas Zepeda appeared lifeless.The organization Monitoreo Azul y Blanco, which collects the human rights violations in that country, denounced his "kidnapping" by the "Sandinista police."
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El EconomistaNicaragua's Opposition denounced the death of an opponent arrested 15 days ago, the second to die behind bars in a week.
Second opposition leader in Nicaragua reported dead in state custody this week
A critic of the authoritarian Nicaragua government has died in state custody two weeks after his arrest, local media and opposition parties reported on Saturday, days after a second long-time critic was also reported to have died in detention.
The phone repeated very early in the morning on August 25th. It was an unusual hour and, after 38 days without knowing where the police of the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo had Mauricio Alonso Petri locked up, his wife raised the horn in the hope of finally getting a clue from her husband's trail, or at least from the state of health of this 64-year-old political prisoner. The call brought, in fact, information about him: he came f…
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