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The Government of Nicaragua Today Expressed Its "Protest the most energetic "by the" partial declarations "of the UN which denounced that the law on terrorism adopted by the Parliament can be used to criminalize the demonstrations in the country, implying a crisis since April which leaves more than 350 dead.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights today denounced that the law on terrorism approved by the Parliament of Nicaragua could be used to criminalize peaceful protests and has noted that the text "is very vague and allows a broad interpretation." " We strongly reject this gross manipulation by the High Commissioner for Sovereignty and the obligation of the State of Nicaragua to to legislate in accordance with international conventions and treaties to prevent money laundering and the financing of terrorism ", said Tuesday the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry in a note.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has argued that section 394 of the approved law "contains a text who are demonstrating peacefully ".
" In questioning this law the Office of the High Commissioner is accomplice precisely of actions that our legislation as a state responsible condemns and which we have approved in accordance International Conventions and Instruments ", criticized the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
"This type of statement makes them complicit in the actions of the terrorist groups, killing Nicaragua and destroying our country with a view to overthrowing a constitutional government, democratically elected by our people," notes the Government's note
]. The Foreign Ministry warned that " would question and manipulate the sovereign right and political will of Nicaragua to strengthen its legal, technical and operational capacities to combat money laundering, the financing of terrorism. and other illegal activities goes against the principles of the Charter of the United Nations and the international legal order cessation of this type of statements and manipulations that do nothing to create the necessary climate for dialogue between Nicaraguans ", he concluded.
Law against money laundering, the financing of terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mbad destruction was approved last Monday and inflicts a sentence of 15 to 20 years in prison for the crime of "terrorism "
" The text is very vague and allows a broad interpretation that could lead to the inclusion (in the definition of terrorist) of people who simply exercise their right to protest ", said at a press conference the spokesman of the United Nations Office, Rupert Colville, who also stressed that the law had been approved by a Congress" almost totally controlled by the government ".
The Sandinista majority and its allies in Parliament approved the disputed law in the midst of the popular uprising which began on April 18 and which the government describes as "a very serious problem of terrorism".
The Nicaraguan opposition denounced the fact that with this law "criminalize" the civic protest of the citizens and the persecution against civic organizations and the Catholic Church.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and the UN Bureau Acnudh declared the Government of Nicaragua responsible for "badbadinations, extrajudicial executions, ill-treatment, torture and arrests arbitrary acts committed against the young population of the country, "he denied.
Nicaragua The most bloody socio-political crisis has been going on since the 1980s, also with Ortega as president.
Protests against Ortega began on April 18, due to the failure of social security reforms and They became a claim that calls for the resignation of the president, after eleven years in power, with accusations of abuse and corruption against him. EFE
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