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Weekly Report - 14 August 2014 (WR-14-32)
NICARAGUA: Wave of dawn arrests and disappearances
The opposition Partido Liberal Independiente (PLI), the Roman Catholic Church and rights advocacy groups have accused the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) government of President Daniel Ortega of launching a wave of unacknowledged arrests and ‘forced disappearances’ in the northern departments of Matagalpa and Jinotega in its search for the ‘intellectual authors’ of the armed attacks that killed five Sandinistas and injured another 19 on 19 July [WR-14-30].
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