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Opponents describe hideous conditions in Nicaraguan prisons

Constant fear

The Independent UK

These dissidents had already left Nicaragua, but Ortega still felt compelled to punish them

Humberto Belli, former Nicaraguan education minister and brother of acclaimed writer Gioconda Belli, thought he had left oppression behind when he fled his home country in June 2021 after anticipating correctly that the Daniel Ortega regime was about to arrest him.

Miami Herald

Nicaragua strips 94 political opponents of citizenship

President Daniel Ortega intensifies his political crackdown, stripping 94 of the most prominent Nicaraguan writers, journalists and human rights activists of citizenship. They lose all their rights.

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Nicaragua: Ortega crackdown deepens as 94 opponents stripped of citizenship

Some of country’s most celebrated writers and journalists targeted as critics condemn ‘totalitarian drift’ under 77-year-old president

The Guardian - US

Nicaragua pulls citizenship of Ramirez, Belli, 92 opponents

Nicaragua has cancelled the citizenship of 94 political opponents, including writers Sergio Ramírez and Gioconda Belli

The Independent UK

Nicaragua strips 94 citizens of their nationality

Nicaragua's government has stripped 94 citizens of their nationality, according to a resolution read out by a judge on Wednesday.

Reuters

Nicaraguan political prisoners' families seek their release after others freed

The relatives of 35 political prisoners in Nicaragua called for their release on Tuesday, days after 222 others in the same category were freed and expelled to the United States following a surprise deal with Washington.

Reuters

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Nicaragua's vote to strip opponents of citizenship

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has sent 222 political leaders, priests, students, activists and other dissidents to the United States, whose release was long demanded by the international community

The Independent UK

U.S. makes fresh call for jailed Nicaraguan bishop's release

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Brian Nichols on Monday put fresh pressure on Nicaragua to release an anti-government bishop condemned last week to a 26-year prison sentence.

Reuters

Pope Francis calls on Nicaragua to ‘open its heart’ over jailing of prominent government critic

The jailing of Bishop Rolando Alvarez marks ‘the most severe repression against the Catholic Church in Latin America’ in two decades

The Independent UK

Nicaragua’s prisoners flew to freedom – but Ortega’s not going anywhere

Joy and relief greeted the freed political detainees as they landed in the US but has Nicaragua’s autocratic ruler merely removed his biggest problem?

The Guardian - US

Thousands march in Nicaragua in support of govt opponents' expulsion

Managua (AFP) - Several thousand pro-government demonstrators marched Saturday in Nicaragua in support of the expulsion of 222 critics of President Daniel Ortega's government, which has called them "traitors to the homeland."

AFP

Pope worried about Nicaraguan bishop sentenced to 26 years

Pope Francis on Sunday expressed sadness and worry at the news that Roman Catholic Bishop Roland Álvarez, an outspoken critic of the Nicaraguan government, had been sentenced to 26 years in prison in the latest move against the Catholic Church and government opponents

The Independent UK

David Pratt: A day of reckoning looms for Erdogan in Turkey

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Defiant ruling party supporters celebrate in Nicaragua

Nicaragua’s ruling Sandinista political machine has mobilized a few thousand of its faithful to celebrate the government’s decision to expel 222 opposition leaders, activists, priests, students and journalists

Al Jazeera

US top envoy calls for ‘dialogue’ in rare call with Nicaragua FM

Blinken calls for dialogue in rare high-level contact between the countries, a day after 222 prisoners released.

Al Jazeera

Spain offers citizenship to freed Nicaraguan political prisoners

The announcement comes after Nicaragua’s legislature moved to strip the released prisoners of their citizenship.

Reuters

Nicaraguan Catholic bishop sentenced to prison, stripped of citizenship

A Nicaraguan court sentenced Catholic Bishop Rolando Alvarez to a more than 26-year prison term on Friday, a day after the cleric and critic of President Daniel Ortega declined to be expelled to the United States as part of a prisoner release.

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Not told until the runway: freed Nicaraguan prisoner recounts journey to U.S

Nicaraguan opposition leader Juan Sebastian Chamorro on Friday recounted his whirlwind trip to Washington from Managua's El Chipote prison this week after he was pulled from his cell in the middle of the night and pushed into a bus.

The Independent UK

Nicaragua prisoner release pressure valve for Ortega regime

United States sanctions and public criticism of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega was building for months

Reuters

Spain offers freed Nicaraguans citizenship after move to make them stateless

The Spanish government offered citizenship to more than 200 Nicaraguan political prisoners who were freed and flown to the United States on Thursday, Spain's top diplomat said on Friday.

The Independent UK

Why has Nicaragua suddenly released more than 200 political prisoners?

Jailed opponents of authoritarian leader Daniel Ortega freed and deported to US

The Independent UK

‘I won’t leave my homeland’: Bishop imprisoned over criticism of Nicaragua’s Ortega refuses US flight

Bishop Rolando Alvarez did not board a flight to Washington along with 222 freed political prisoners – and will now face trial for ‘spreading false news’ in a case decried by human rights activists

AFP

Nicaragua frees 222 dissidents in sudden shift, expels them to US

Washington (AFP) - Over 200 detained members of Nicaragua's opposition were freed Thursday and expelled to the United States, in a surprise move by the Central American country's increasingly authoritarian president, Daniel Ortega.

AFP

Journalists, guerrillas, a former first lady: 10 of Nicaragua's freed dissidents

Managua (AFP) - Nicaragua's government on Thursday freed 222 people among hundreds of critics and opposition figures in jail for allegedly threatening the country's sovereignty among other charges widely denounced as bogus.

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