Police officers and members of the neighborhood CPC committees also threatened citizens with confiscating their houses.
HAVANA TIMES – The persecution and repression by the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo against Nicaraguans considered “opponents or critics” does not cease. In fact, it has intensified. Now officers of the Police and members of the Citizen Power Councils (Consejos del Poder Ciudadano-CPC) harass and threaten citizens by offering them prison or exile, reported the Center for Inter-American Legal Assistance in Human Rights (CALIDH).
Danny Ramirez-Ayerdiz, Executive Secretary of CALIDH, explained to La Prensa that in recent days, the organization had received more than ten complaints from people in Nicaragua who recounted that “police officers, who present themselves as intelligence officers in municipalities remote from cities are harassing them because they come to their homes and force them to go into exile or be thrown into prison. There is a new escalation of repression.”
The human rights defender pointed out that the dictatorship is currently “forcing people it considers dangerous to leave Nicaragua. They did not have enough with the thousands of Nicaraguans who have fled. This tells us that we have a real state of terror because people feel they are in line to be the next victi
