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Weekly Report - 13 August 2009 (WR-09-32)
NICARAGUA: Another attack on civil society
The prominent civil society umbrella group, Coordinadora Civil (CC),
announced this week that it was filing a complaint before the public
prosecutor's office after its members were attacked by supporters of President
Daniel Ortega and his ruling Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) at
its annual convention. The violence was condemned by government opponents and
local human rights activists as the latest instance of political persecution
against non FSLN-affiliated social movements.
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