UN experts allege Nicaragua’s leaders may have committed crimes against humanity
U.N. experts say the leaders used detentions, disappearances and citizenship stripping to silence opponents, and they found reasonable grounds for crimes against humanity.
- On Wednesday, United Nations human rights experts reported that Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo have established a dictatorship, with experts finding "reasonable grounds to believe that crimes against humanity have been committed."
- Following constitutional changes last year, the Sandinista Party solidified "total control" over the judiciary and legislature, human rights lawyer Reed Brody reported, eliminating independent checks on the co-presidents.
- Since February 2023, authorities have declared at least 452 political opponents "traitors," stripping them of citizenship and stateless, while the government shuttered more than 5,000 organizations to eliminate domestic dissent.
- The expert group urged countries to bring a case before the International Court of Justice; Nicaragua rejected the council as "manipulated, obsolete and interfering," denying the allegations.
- Jan-Michael Simon, chair of the group, warned the regime aims for permanent dynastic rule, a goal Ortega emphasized four months ago by declaring Nicaragua will never hold elections again.
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The Nicaraguan leadership has denied the suspected human rights violations.
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UN experts allege Nicaragua’s leaders may have committed crimes against humanity
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — United Nations human rights experts said Wednesday that Nicaragua’s co-presidents have established a dictatorship and that there are “reasonable grounds to believe that crimes against humanity have been committed.” The expert group has been investigating allegations of human rights violations and abuses in Nicaragua, which the country’s government denies, since April...
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UN experts allege Nicaragua's leaders may have committed crimes against humanity
United Nations human rights experts say Nicaragua’s co-presidents have established a dictatorship and there are “reasonable grounds to believe that crimes against humanity have been committed."
United Nations human rights experts said Wednesday that Nicaragua’s president, Daniel Ortega, and his wife and vice president Rosario Murillo, have established a dictatorship and that there are “reasonable grounds to believe that crimes against humanity have been committed.”
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