The UN Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua (UNGHREN) told the UN General Assembly Thursday that that Nicaragua’s government has carried out systematic human-rights violations, some amounting to crimes against humanity . The experts urged Nicaraguan authorities to release people arbitrarily detained and end enforced disappearances.

The experts findings draw on more than 1,900 interviews and 9,300 documents detailing state policies of repression, including enforced disappearances and deprivation of nationality.

UNGHREN expert member Ariel Peralta said that perceived opponents of the Ortega government have been stripped of their nationality as “a tool to punish and erase those who dare to dissent.” This practice that has reportedly targeted hundreds of Nicaraguan diaspora, stri

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