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Weekly Report - 10 December 2015 (WR-15-49)
NICARAGUA: Opposition back on the alert
A move towards a security model “incompatible with a modern democratic regime” is how respected think tank Instituto de Estudios Estratégicos y Políticas Públicas (Ieepp) is describing a new ‘sovereign security’ law approved last week by Nicaragua’s 92-member national assembly. Ieepp, together with the human rights group Centro Nicaragüense de Derechos Humanos (Cenidh) and the political opposition, fear that the new legislation could be invoked by the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) government led by President Daniel Ortega to repress political unrest ahead of the November 2016 general elections.
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