U. S. added Nicaraguan Police to monitoring list due to human rights violations
2023.03.28 20:05
U. S. added Nicaraguan Police to monitoring list due to human rights violations
By Tiffany Smith
Budrigannews.com – After the Biden administration stated that the Nicaraguan National Police were engaged in serious human rights violations in Nicaragua, the U.S. Commerce Department added the force to a government export control list on Tuesday.
Last week, the State Division refered to tenable reports of erratic killings, captures and torment in Nicaragua, as well as brutal and perilous circumstances in the nation’s jails, in a yearly basic liberties report.
Companies are prohibited from selling U.S. technology without a hard-to-obtain permit by the Commerce Department’s “Entity List” designation.
The police were added to the list “for engaging in activities contrary to U.S. foreign policy interests,” according to the Commerce Department.
President Daniel Ortega’s organization has been progressively secluded globally since his administration started getting serious vigorously on contradict following road fights that ejected in 2018. The protests have been characterized by Ortega as an attempt to topple his government.
In 2018, nationwide protests against Ortega broke out, leading to the deaths of over 300 people, the majority of whom were police officers.
“numerous reports that the government or its agents committed arbitrary or unlawful killings,” the State Department stated in its human rights report for the year 2022.
It also criticized Ortega officials for allegedly failing to investigate alleged crimes committed by police and other security forces in connection with the anti-government protests, which claimed the lives of at least 355 people.
All of Ortega’s main political rivals were apprehended during the 2021 presidential election, and dissent was severely targeted.
In 2007, Ortega, 76, a Marxist rebel who helped overthrow a right-wing dictatorship in the late 1970s, regained power and won a fourth term in a widely criticized election.
