They destroyed the headquarters of an NGO that denounces human rights violations in Nicaragua

A headquarters of the NGO Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh) was found to be destroyed, as confirmed on Saturday, provoking signs of repudiation as the building is located in an area controlled by the Daniel Ortega regime in Nicaragua, indicated by violation of fundamental rights.

The Cenidh estate in Managua, next to President Daniel Ortega’s mansion, was in the hands of the government, who seized it in December 2018. after the NGO denounced crimes against humanity by the police and Sandinistas against hundreds of people who took part in the massive anti-government protests that year.

Photos taken seemingly clandestinely show that all that remained were the walls.

“The Cenidh is not four walls, some furniture, a single person, Cenidh is all #Nicaragua that requires justice, freedom, democracy and human rights # Nonoscallarán”, the NGO published on its Twitter account.

Cenidh has blamed the regime for at least 325 dead, including dozens of police officers, in armed attacks on peaceful demonstrations, leaving hundreds inmates dead or missing, thousands injured and tens of thousands in exile.

“Harassment of human rights organizations has no end. All my solidarity with Cenidh, ”stressed the Nicaragua rapporteur of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) Antonia Urrejola.

According to the complaints, the destruction of the property took place yesterday, Friday, the day Cenidh and four other NGOs defending human rights in Nicaragua published a report revealing that in 2020 at least 49 indigenous people were killed without the authorities. investigate crimes.

BLAME ORTEGA

Nicaraguan activist Bianca Jagger, on behalf of the foundation that bears her name in the United Kingdom, directly referred to Ortega about the attack on Cenidh.

“On behalf of @TheBJHRF (Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation) I condemn and condemn this new act of aggression by dictator #Ortega against respected Nicaraguan Human Rights Center @cenidh. We stand in solidarity with the brave human rights defenders who are being persecuted and harassed. #SomosCenidh, ”the activist wrote on her Twitter account.

Former IACHR Executive Secretary Paulo Abrao, for his part, tweeted a list of the actions of the Nicaraguan regime against Cenidh. “1 State oppresses and murders, 2 (removes) legal personality, 3 seizes its headquarters, 4 criminalizes its free funding, 5 destroys its facilities.” Abrao stressed that Nicaragua is in a “state of exception”.

The Center for Justice and International Law (Cejil), based in Costa Rica, also took to Twitter to show that it “rejects this new aggression against @cenidh and the de facto government confiscation. Our solidarity with the human rights defenders who, despite circumstances remain steadfast in their work ”.

Nicaragua is going through a bloody socio-political crisis not seen in the 1980s to 1990s, also with Ortega in the presidency.

With information from EFE

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