"Do you ever think about things that you do think about?" (Inherit the Wind)
Even though the Ortega-Murillo government has fully released 106 political prisoners under an Amnesty Law, several amnesty recipients have denounced police harassment, and there are at least two people who have been unable to return home at all. Olesia Muñoz,…
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The Ortega-Murillo Interior Ministry (MIGOB) announced today the release of 56 more political prisoners, under the new amnesty law. The amnesty law, though also ensuring that no Ortega-Murillo operatives will be investigated or tried for possible crimes against humanity as…
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The Ortega-Murillo government has excarcerated fifty political prisoners, in a symbolic move intended to mark Mothers’ Day. The excarcerated prisoners were taken to their homes, using vehicles belonging to the penitentiary system, as is customary. On Monday, the Ortega-Murillo negotiation…
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Negotiations between the Ortega-Murillo administration and the Alianza Civica resumed on Monday, and while not a single political prisoner has been released nor civil liberties restored, Jose Pallais says that progress has been made. Pallais, who is part of the…
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“We are running out of ink, but not our of news.” The headline on today’s La Prensa spells out the impending end of the print edition, after the paper has done whatever it could to save it. The Ortega Murillo…
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The Comité Pro Liberación de Presos Políticos (CPLPP) released an updated list of political prisoners this Wednesday morning. According to the CPLPP data, there are 802 prisoners of conscience in Nicaraguan prisons, as of March 19. The number includes about…
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The transport of Nicaraguan political prisoners from the Modelo and the Esperanza correctional began this morning, when fifty prisoners of conscience were excarcelated. The OrMu administration agreed to excarcelate “an appreciable nucleus of people” on Friday March 15, according to…
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Mons. Waldemar Sommetag, Apostolic Nuncio in Nicaragua, visited the Modelo and the Esperanza prisons today and met with 16 political prisoners. The Nunciature issued the statement below, describing the visit as one in which the Mons. Sommertag, “had a personal,…
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In this Edition OrMu’s Negotiators get Stood Up “Like the Bride from Tola” at the INCAE; On Political Prisoners, Organizations Demand Government Action; Yubrank Suazo Punished, After Defiant Act of Protest; OrMu Chides Alianza in Statement The Alianza Civica stuck…
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Note: This letter was written by Nicaraguan political prisoners held at the Esperanza Women’s Prison. Edits for clarity and grammatical consistency are in brackets. Pg. 1 La Esperanza, Wednesday, February 27, 2019 The political prisoners in resistance, who have been…
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