UN Rapporteur Calls on Ortega to Allow Peaceful Assembly
Police patrol vehicles with riot police keep a watch on the entrances of the Nicaraguan Engineering University and the University of Central America in Managua. Photo: Carlos Herrera.
Police patrol vehicles with riot police keep a watch on the entrances of the Nicaraguan Engineering University and the University of Central America in Managua. Photo: Carlos Herrera.
UN rapporteur and Inter-American Commission for Human Rights warn of the negative impact of restrictions on Nicaraguans’ political rights
5 mayo, 2021
Clement Voule of the UN called on the Ortega regime to “fully guarantee the right to peaceful assembly.” Voule is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association. His call comes during the run-up to the call for general elections in Nicaragua. For two and a half years, the government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo has prohibited all types of opposition activities.