Since 2018, Nicaragua has experienced a political and human rights crisis. The escalation of violence in recent weeks has exacerbated that crisis, dismayed the country and the international community that has repudiated Ortega’s barbarism.
Since 2007, the ‘Ortega Murillos’ began to dismantle the institutions and the rule of law that existed in the country. Today, all Nicaraguans live in complete and absolute lack of protection and are at the mercy of the operators of the repression.
Since 2018, the Daniel Ortega regime has murdered more than 350 people for demonstrating and prosecuted more than 1,400 people. The authorities have tortured, beaten, harassed, and systematically and widely persecuted men and women for thinking differently, for demanding freedom, democracy, and justice. Currently, more than 130 political prisoners are in the jails of the regime.
The kidnapping of members of the Unamos Party leadership, between Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 June 2021, is part of these persecution acts in a clear attempt to neutralize the opposition. Ortega’s regime is currently subjecting them to isolation and illegal processes in which all their rights are being violated. Furthermore, many of those victims are considered as missing since they are not present to the respective authorities as legally demanded by the constitution.
IUSY rejects the arbitrary and inhumane way the police have operated, as well as the implausible arguments used by the regime invoking laws that have no other objective than to try to justify the kidnappings of 17 Nicaraguan citizens of different social backgrounds and ideological identities that were executed in the last three weeks.
Finally, and most importantly, IUSY calls for an end to the constant persecution of the opposition and for all political prisoners to be released. It is essential the Human Rights are guaranteed and unconditionally protected under any circumstances.
We call on the International Community to act now and prevent further perpetrations of Human Rights violations.