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Weekly Report - 20 December 2018 (WR-18-50)
NICARAGUA: Concerns mount as Ortega targets another sector
“A very sad day for the defence of human rights in the region.” This was the response by Erika Guevara Rosas, the Americas director for Amnesty International (AI), to the decision by Nicaragua’s legislative assembly, controlled by the ruling Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN), to cancel nine NGOs, including the country’s leading human rights organisation Centro Nicaragüense de Derechos Humanos (Cenidh) which was founded in 1990. The moves against civil society groups – which were backed by renewed attacks against the press – have further subjected President Daniel Ortega to international criticism. Just days earlier the US House of Representatives had approved the latest version of the Nicaraguan Investment Conditionality Act (Nica Act) – the most decisive move by the US so far against the Ortega government in response to the country’s political crisis.
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