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The Nicaraguan government has carried out a strong persecution of the sectors participating in the protests with captures, disappearances and property fires, while selling the "false" image of normalcy in the country, denounced on Tuesday. opposition movement. 19659002] "Basically, there are threats, arrests, disappearances, looting and house fires," AFP deputy leader José Pallais told AFP. Opposition Frente Amplio por la Democracia (19659002). extinguish all the critical voices, make them disappear, "said Pallais, who said that several opponents were captured, the houses of at least three were looted and two were burned, amidst the crackdown on protests
"These new forms of repression, intimidation and persecution", in a statement read at a press conference by his coordinator, Violeta Granera
increased the number of missing, as well that the prisoners of conscience who face, in illegal procedures, terrorism charges formulated by the prosecutor's office, after being arbitrarily detained and taken to secret prisons. "
In recent days, they have been charged with "terrorists" for taking part in demonstrations against the government, according to opponents of peasants Medardo Mairena and Pedro Mena.
Increasing numbers of emigrants
The UN reported Tuesday that most of those fleeing violence in Nicaragua have fled to Costa Rica, where at least 23,000 people have tried to escape. 39, get asylum since the beginning of the crisis in April.
"In recent months, the number of asylum applications filed by Nicaraguans in Costa Rica and in other countries has increased exponentially," said the spokesman of the United States. Agency. The UN for Refugees (UNHCR), William Spindler, at a press conference in Geneva
According to UNHCR, "Costa Rica has received the most asylum applications, but Panama, Mexico and the United States the first half of 2018 with a significant spike in June. "
Regional figures are still unknown but with respect to Costa Rica," there were about 8,000 requests from 39 asylum of Nicaraguan citizens since April and about 15,000 people they got an appointment to register later because the national treatment capabilities are outdated, "he explained, citing data from the authorities Costa Rica
Ortega asserts the return to normal
Tuesday in an interview with CNN, Nicaragua returns to normal after more than three months of demonstrations, which have made 195 deaths according to the government And over 300 according to human rights groups
"Far from this false image of peace", in addition to the deaths, there are more than 2,800 wounded and about 600 missing, said the ADF. Monday, investigating 10 opposition activists to support the protests, among them the student leaders Lesther Alemán, Víctor Cuadra and Jorge Solís, members of the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy participating in a dialogue with the government
. For his part, the leader of the liberal right, Kitty Monterrey, and six Sandinista dissident leaders, including the former guerrilla Dora María Téllez and former Vice Chancellor Victor Hugo Tinoco, said they were threatened [19659013]. "Part of the government's crackdown strategy," said Monterrey at a press conference
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) said last week that Nicaragua is repression that results in "an intense process of criminalization of protesters".
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