Statement on Ongoing Human Rights Situation in Nicaragua | United Nations
Thameen Al-Kheetan, for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), spoke of the new OHCHR report on Nicaragua, which highlighted the seriously deteriorating human rights situation in the country, including a steep increase of cases of arbitrary detention, intimidation of opponents, ill-treatment in custody, and attacks against Indigenous peoples. Persecution of Government opponents, or those perceived as dissenting voices, had progressively been extended and intensified. The authorities also continued to persecute any individual or organisation that operated independently or did not fall directly under their control.