The UN group of experts pointed out that the international community can take actions that promote sanctions against the Ortega regime.
Press conference with the United Nations group of experts for Nicaragua. Screenshot.
At a press conference, Angela Buitrago y Jan-Michael Simonfrom the Group of Experts on Human Rights on Nicaragua (GHREN), explained that the international community can take actions that promote sanctions against the Daniel Ortega regime, after the presentation of the investigation where they accuse him and his partner Rosario Murillo of Crimes against humanity.
“The international community can exercise what is called the principle of protection to prevent crimes against humanity from continuing to be committed, as was verified in the investigation and was demonstrated,” he said. buitrago.
The report of the UN group of experts was published last Thursday, March 2, in Geneva, Switzerland, where they accused the government of Daniel Ortega of committing crimes against humanity that constitute extrajudicial executions, arbitrary detentions, torture, and arbitrary deprivation of nationality and the right to remain in one’s own country.
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After organizations requested that the mandate be extended to continue with the investigations into the situation in Nicaragua, the president of GHREN, Jan-Michael Simonexplained that “the mandate will be renewed on April 4 at the close of session 52 of the United Nations Human Rights Council.”
For Simon This renewal will mean the possibility of continuing with a broader mandate and that “we are going to deepen our lines of investigation as we have indicated in the report.”
“One line of investigation will be in terms of indigenous peoples, Afro-descendants, peasants, another will be to have a chance to see the economic implications and that they may have an implication in terms of corruption of the violations that we have documented,” he explained.
Simon He added that the third line of investigation is to find out which are the Nicaraguan state institutions involved in human rights violations.
