United Nations human rights experts called on President Daniel Ortega’s government Friday to clarify the fate and whereabouts of more than 120 individuals who appear to have been forcibly disappeared after the violent suppression of anti-government protests in 2018. The experts also urged the state to cease using arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance as tools of political repression.

In a press release issued through the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the experts warned that families’ repeated attempts to locate their loved ones have been met with conflicting information, silence, or threats. They documented a pattern in which detainees are held in secret and often denied access to lawyers, medical care, or family contact, underscoring that “keeping fami

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