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Managua April 21, 2018 A Protestant who faced the riot police was hit by a bang in the head and was left unconscious on the road. Foto Jader Flores / LA PRENSA
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) today asked the state of Nicaragua to inspect certain places that, according to local humanitarian agencies, are used by the government as clandestine detention centers in the midst of the current crisis in this country.
The Executive Secretary of the IACHR Paulo Abrão, said at a press conference that they formalized this request to the state to visit at least four places
The Nicaraguan Pro Association Human Rights (ANPDH) denounced Tuesday that the Nicaraguan government had at least four clandestine detention centers
"(We denounce the existence clandestine detention centers for operations outside the law of armed paramilitary groups and clashes (combined forces) for fanaticism of partisans ", According to a report read by the Secretary General of the ANPDH, Álvaro Leiva
The report indicates that the government has at least one clandestine detention center in Managua in Nindirí, another in Masatepe and another in Masatepe, more in Masaya, a city that has become an icon of demonstrations against the pr President Daniel Ortega in which at least 309 people died and 158 others missing, according to data from the & # 39; ANPDH. 19659004] The NGO report adds that they have knowledge about other illegal detention centers that do not mention " not to impede the investigation ."
In this sense, Leiva badures that they believe " that they can carry out citizen mobilizations to clandestine centers, to hide what is happening in prisons " as " El Chipote ", a dark prison in which many young people who have joined the prison remain in detention. As protests
Leiva explained that it is the citizens themselves who "cause the denunciations to arrive."
Nicaragua goes through the most bloody socio-political crisis since the 1980s, with Ortega also as president
Protests against the government began on April 18 for failed social security reforms and are became a demand for resignation of the president, after eleven years in power, with charges of abuse and corruption. EFE
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