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Nicaraguan government interferes with citizen activism and closes space for opposition
Published at
25.01.2018
Country
Nicaragua
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- prevention of protest
- political interference
- intimidation
- harassment
- women
- censorship

Women-lead commemorative protest blocked by police
Published at
06.03.2018
Country
Nicaragua
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- protest disruption
- indigenous groups
- women
- harassment
- excessive force
- prevention of protest
- bureaucratic restriction
- protestor(s) detained

Hundreds of NGOs demand an end to the state's repression of the right to peaceful assembly
Published at
22.05.2018
Country
Nicaragua
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened
- women
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protest
- killing of protestors
- torture/ill-treatment
- non state actors

Regressive changes to social security system lead to protests and a brutal crackdown
Published at
23.04.2018
Country
Nicaragua
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- excessive force
- protest
- killing of journalist
- killing of protestors
- restrictive law
- censorship
- environmental rights
- non state actors

Protection measures granted due to grave risks faced by activists at protests
Published at
15.06.2018
Country
Nicaragua
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- women
- killing of protestors
- attack on HRD
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protest

275 people killed since the protests started
Published at
19.07.2018
Country
Nicaragua
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- attack on HRD
- attack on journalist
- protestor(s) detained
- excessive force
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- killing of protestors
- youth
- violent protest
- non state actors

UN report finds 'Urgent action is needed to address the human rights crisis in Nicaragua'
Published at
03.09.2018
Country
Nicaragua
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on journalist
- enforced disappearance
- HRD detained
- protest
- journalist detained
- killing of protestors
- non state actors
- youth
- women
- excessive force
- attack on HRD
- harassment
Nicaragua's rating downgraded from Obstructed to Repressed
Published at
21.09.2018
Country
Nicaragua
Category
Latest Developments

'They treat us inhumanely', said campesino leader Medardo Mairena from prison
Published at
09.10.2018
Country
Nicaragua
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- travel ban
- youth
- women
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- killing of protestors
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- HRD acquitted
- HRD threatened
- non state actors

Clandestine protest on International Women’s Day in Nicaragua
Published at
01.04.2021
Country
Nicaragua
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- negative court ruling
- refusal of registration
- protest
- public vilification
- LGBTI
- women
- youth
- intimidation
- harassment
- surveillance

Nicaragua: criminalización, difamación y acoso de personas defensoras de los DD. HH
Published at
20.12.2019
Country
Nicaragua
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- intimidation
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- protest
- HRD prosecuted
- non state actors
- self censorship
- protest disruption

CSOs denounce lack of public information on COVID-19, putting people at risk in Nicaragua
Published at
20.04.2020
Country
Nicaragua
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- HRD detained
- women
- intimidation

91 political prisoners released but HRDs and journalists face continuous hostility and threats
Published at
27.01.2020
Country
Nicaragua
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- protest disruption
- attack on HRD
- release of HRDs
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- public vilification
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- HRD threatened
- non state actors

Liberan a 91 presos políticos mientras personas defensoras de los DD.HH. siguen sufriendo hostilidad
Published at
30.01.2020
Country
Nicaragua
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on journalist
- public vilification
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- HRD threatened
- protest disruption
- women
- attack on HRD
- release of HRDs
- harassment
- non state actors

Crackdown against political dissent deepens in Nicaragua
Published at
06.03.2020
Country
Nicaragua
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive CS development
- attack on HRD
- HRD threatened
- HRD detained
- censorship
- intimidation
- harassment
- torture/ill-treatment
- protest
- non state actors
- attack on journalist
- prevention of protest
- surveillance
- protest disruption

Increased police repression on second anniversary of mass mobilisation
Published at
20.05.2020
Country
Nicaragua
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship
- intimidation
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- protest

At least 37 political prisoners in Nicaragua have presented COVID-19 symptoms say CSOs
Published at
15.06.2020
Country
Nicaragua
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- non state actors
- harassment
- intimidation

Aumenta la represión policial en el segundo aniversario de las movilizaciones multitudinarias
Published at
26.05.2020
Country
Nicaragua
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- torture/ill-treatment
- intimidation
- harassment
- censorship
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- protest

Declining health of convicted HRD concerns family members and human rights organisations
Published at
29.05.2020
Country
Nicaragua
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted
- negative court ruling
- public vilification
- torture/ill-treatment
- women
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- HRD detained

Onslaught of restrictive legislation continues in Nicaragua
Published at
26.01.2021
Country
Nicaragua
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- harassment
- HRD detained
- protest
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- youth