In a hearing at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, human rights organisations denounced the continued repression and persecution by the Nicaraguan State against beneficiaries of provisional measures and their families, some of whom are imprisoned in Nicaraguan jails and many of whom have been banished from the country and arbitrarily deprived of their nationality.
During the hearing, it became evident that the State of Nicaragua has systematically failed to comply with the resolutions of the Court , which order the immediate release of arbitrarily detained people and the protection of their fundamental rights.
To date, 88 of the beneficiaries have been banished and stripped of their nationality, while 7 remain in prison and 1 is still in a situation of enforced disappearance. The organisations denounced that the banishment and loss of nationality have been used as mechanisms of reprisal by the Nicaraguan government against the political opposition. Likewise, the State has confiscated property and bank accounts, annulled identity records and denied access to official documents, leaving victims in a legal and social limbo.
In addition, senior citizens have been stripped of their pensions. Repression in Nicaragua not only continues but has been intensified. Recent constitutional and legislative reforms have consolidated an authoritarian and police state that suppresses fundamental rights and legalises persecution against the opposition.
Among the most alarming measures are the concentration of power in the figure of the co-presidents , the establishment of voluntary police forces and the elimination of the prohibition of torture, which leaves political prisoners completely defenseless. The organisations also warned about the extension of a policy of repression beyond Nicaraguan borders, with attempts to criminalise exiled persons through false accusations and the possible use of international mechanisms such as Interpol to persecute opponents abroad.
