Nicaragua’s human rights crisis continued throughout 2020, as did the authorities' strategy of repressing dissent. The government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic ignored the health recommendations of international organizations. Arbitrary arrests and detentions of political activists continued...

Amnesty International and other human rights organizations write jointly to UN Human Rights Council Member States in the context of this body’s 52nd Session to urge them to pass a resolution extending the mandate of the Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua and the monitoring mandate of the...

Since the present human rights crisis flared up in Nicaragua in 2018 the government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo has not held back its onslaught against human rights and any form of dissent or criticism. Over the past few years national and international human rights organisations have...

In response to the expulsion of 222 people, previously arbitrarily detained in Nicaragua, to the United States, Erika-Guevara Rosas, Americas Director at Amnesty International, said:   “While we share our excitement at the fact that those removed to the United States are no longer behind...

In response to the adoption today of a resolution by the United Nations Human Rights Council that establishes an independent accountability mechanism for human rights violations and crimes against humanity in Nicaragua, Erika Guevara-Rosas, Americas director at Amnesty International, said: “We...

A coalition of civil society organizations, including Amnesty International, calls the UN Human Rights Council to support a strong resolution, which establishes a robust mechanism for the investigation of crimes under international law and human rights violations committed in Nicaragua.

Oral statement on Nicaragua delivered by Amnesty International during UN Human Rights Council, forty-ninth regular session. We call for the establishment of an independent international accountability mechanism for human righs violations and crimes against humanity perpetrated in Nicaragua since...

The denunciation of the Charter of the Organization of American States (OAS), issued on 19 November by the Foreign Minister of Nicaragua, Denis Moncada, puts victims of human rights violations, their families, human rights defenders and Nicaraguan society in general in a state of greater...

The prospect of Daniel Ortega’s fourth presidential term in Nicaragua is a frightening one for a nation where human rights violations have become increasingly commonplace under his government, Amnesty International said today.  “Once again, the people...

As tight restrictions continue to be imposed on basic human rights such as voicing a dissenting opinion or even organizing together to shine a light on abuses at the hands of authorities, the conditions for a new period of repression are set.

In the run up to the general elections in Nicaragua, scheduled for 7 November, Amnesty International, the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL), CIVICUS; Human Rights Watch, the International Institute on Race, Equality and Human Rights, the Washington Office on Latin American, the World...

On 7 November 2021, general elections will be held in Nicaragua in the context of a deterioration of the human rights crisis that began with the repression of protests in April 2018. The undersigned organizations are deeply concerned about the continuing grave human rights violations and their...

More than 100,000 people have fled the country in this time, while dozens of activists, human rights defenders and journalists have been threatened, imprisoned, tortured, and in some cases disappeared. The authorities have intensified their repressive tactics with a new wave of arrests in the lead...