Human Rights defenders warn about the situation of torture of political prisoners of the Ortega dictatorship.
HAVANA TIMES – The UN Human Rights Council held a session on the situation in Nicaragua, in which the delegations from different countries and Nicaraguan dissidents highlighted the worsening of fundamental freedoms in a country “further away from observing human rights.”
“Every day, the country deviates further from human rights, deepening people’s suffering, triggering the exodus of youth, and undermining the future of democratic public institutions,” UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada Al-Nashif noted at the opening of the session on December 18.
“Political and indigenous leaders, members of the Catholic Church, human rights defenders, journalists, and others have been systematically attacked by the Government after expressing critical ideas, and many of them are in exile, with no possibility of returning,” Al-Nashif stressed.
Among those exiles is Medardo Mairena, one of those banished by the government of Daniel Ortega because of his political activism and who was part of a Nicaraguan civil society delegation that participated in the dialogue in Geneva.
“We hope that the international community will help us to get rid of this, of a government that does not respect human rights inside Nicaragua. I know the difficulties faced by my brothers in the struggle who are still political prisoners,” Mairena, one of t
