{"id":20552,"date":"2020-09-18T09:19:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T13:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/?p=20552"},"modified":"2024-10-24T12:00:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T16:00:45","slug":"nicaragua-csos-denounce-authorities-intensified-repression-of-activists-human-rights-defenders-and-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/2020\/09\/18\/nicaragua-csos-denounce-authorities-intensified-repression-of-activists-human-rights-defenders-and-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicaragua: CSOs denounce authorities\u2019 intensified repression of activists, human rights defenders, and journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"

September 18th, 2020.<\/strong>\u00a0The signatories of this letter denounce the repression of activists and those perceived as opponents of the Nicaraguan government at the hands of state agents during the celebration of Nicaragua\u2019s Independence Day. Nicaraguan organizations recorded human rights violations carried out with a clear intent to intimidate those who oppose the current government\u2019s policies.<\/p>\n

During the month of September, civil society figures, journalists, former political prisoners, and their families have all been targeted with arrests, criminalization, excessive force, raids of their homes, police harassment, death threats, vandalism, public slander, and online smear campaigns.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, women who work to defend human rights in Nicaragua are facing a dangerously violent situation. According to the data maintained by the Mesoamerican Initiative for Women Human Rights Defenders (IM-Defensoras), 165 aggressions against female activists took place from September 1-14, including threats sent through social media. The two reports of sexual violence against activists recorded by IM-Defensoras are particularly grave. The organization has reported that one of these sexual assaults was perpetrated by members of a pro-government group; the second is still under investigation.<\/p>\n

These facts are part of a pattern of repression during public holidays, one that appears to be accelerating. Along with this past Independence Day, repression took place during events to mark the two-year anniversary of Nicaragua\u2019s protest movement and during a march to mark Mothers\u2019 Day.<\/p>\n

We are especially concerned by Nicaraguan organizations\u2019 reports that authorities have ordered the National Police to carry out these human rights violations. According to in-country organizations, the Police are assisted in their repression by pro-government civilian groups and the ruling party\u2019s territorial organizations, some of them armed. These reports correspond with previous evidence, documented in several reports by civil society, signaling that actors in the Nicaraguan State have coordinated with pro-government groups to carry out repression.<\/p>\n

We call upon the international community and human rights bodies to remain vigilant regarding the situation in Nicaragua and to join us in condemning the repression of activists, journalists, and human rights defenders.<\/p>\n

Subscribed by:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. ACCOES (Asociaci\u00f3n Casa de Colombia en Espa\u00f1a), Spain
\n2. Alianza Politica Sector de Mujeres -APSM-, Guatemala
\n3. Amnist\u00eda Internacional, Global
\n4. Aquelarre RD, Dominican Republic
\n5. Articulaci\u00f3n de Movimientos Sociales y OSC, Nicaragua
\n6. Asociaci\u00f3n Movimiento de Mujeres de Santo Tom\u00e1s, El Salvador
\n7. Asociaci\u00f3n Nica Libre, Spain
\n8. Asociadas por lo Justo (JASS), Global
\n9. Calala Fondo de Mujeres, Spain
\n10. Campa\u00f1a 28 de Setiembre por la Despenalizaci\u00f3n del Aborto en Am\u00e9rica Latina y El Caribe \u2013 Punto Focal Nicaragua, Nicaragua
\n11. Center for Justice and International Law, Mexico and Central America
\n12. Centro de Asistencia Legal a Pueblos Ind\u00edgenas (CALPI), Global
\n13. Centro de estudios y capacitaci\u00f3n familiar, Panama
\n14. Centro de Informaci\u00f3n de Servicios de Asesor\u00eda en Salud, Nicaragua \u2013 Costa Rica
\n15. Centro Nicaraguense de Derechos Humanos CENIDH, Nicaragua
\n16. Civicus: Alianza Mundial por la participaci\u00f3n Ciudadana, Global
\n17. Colectivo de Derechos Humanos Nicaragua Nunca +, Costa Rica
\n18. Comit\u00e9 de Am\u00e9rica Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de las Mujeres \u2013 CLADEM, Latin America and the Caribbean
\n19. Comit\u00e9 de Am\u00e9rica Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de las Mujeres \u2013 CLADEM, Guatemala
\n20. Comit\u00e9 de Am\u00e9rica Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de las Mujeres \u2013 CLADEM, Panama
\n21. Comite de Am\u00e9rica Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos de las Mujeres \u2013 CLADEM Nicaragua
\n22. Concertaci\u00f3n Interamericana de Mujeres Activistas por los Derechos Humanos \u2013 CIMA, Latin America
\n23. Consorcio para el Di\u00e1logo Parlamentario y la Equidad Oaxaca AC, Mexico
\n24. Convergencia Ciudadana de Mujeres (Converge Mujeres), Guatemala
\n25. Equipos Docentes Rep. Dom., Dominican Republic
\n26. FAN Feministas Autoconvocadas de Nicaragua, Nicaragua
\n27. Federaci\u00f3n internacional de Derechos Humanos (FIDH) en el marco del Observatorio para la Protecci\u00f3n de los Defensores de Derechos Humanos, Global
\n28. Fondo de Acci\u00f3n Urgente para Am\u00e9rica Latina y el Caribe \u2013 FAU-AL, Am\u00e9rica Latina y Caribe Hispanohablante
\n29. Fundaci\u00f3n Acceso, Central America
\n30. Fundaci\u00f3n para el Debido Proceso (DPLF), Latin America
\n31. Fundaci\u00f3n Puntos de Encuentro, Nicaragua
\n32. Grupo Guatemalteco de Mujeres, Guatemala
\n33. Iniciativa Mesoamericana de Mujeres Defensoras de Derechos Humanos (IM-Defensoras), Mesoamerica
\n34. International Institute on Race, Equality and Human Rights (Race and Equality), Latin America
\n35. Las Reinas Chulas Cabaret y Derechos Humanos AC, Mexico
\n36. Mujeres en Acci\u00f3n, Global
\n37. Mujeres en Acci\u00f3n \u2013 Costa Rica
\n38. N\u00facleo de Apoyo a la Mujer NAM, Dominican Republic
\n39. Oficina en Washington para Asuntos Latinoamericanos (WOLA), Centroamerica, US
\n40. Organizaci\u00f3n de Mujeres Tierra Viva, Guatemala
\n41. Organizaci\u00f3n Mundial contra la Tortura (OMCT) en el marco del Observatorio para la Protecci\u00f3n de Derechos Humanos, Global
\n42. Plataforma Nicarag\u00fcense Redes de ONG, Nicaragua
\n43. Protection International Mesoam\u00e9rica, Mesoamerica
\n44. Red de Defensor\u00eda DDHH de Mujeres y J\u00f3venes, Dominican Republic
\n45. Red de Hondure\u00f1as Migradas, Spain
\n46. Red de mujeres contra la violencia, Nicaragua
\n47. Red de Salud de las Mujeres Latinoamericanas y del Caribe \u2013 RSMLAC, Latin America and the Caribbean
\n48. Red Internacional de Derechos Humanos (RIDH), Global
\n49. Unidad de Protecci\u00f3n a Defensoras y Defensores de Derechos Humanos Guatemala (UDEFEGUA), Guatemala
\n50. Y las Mujeres Qu\u00e9?, Mexico<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

September 18th, 2020.\u00a0The signatories of this letter denounce the repression of activists and those perceived as opponents of the Nicaraguan government at the hands of state agents during the celebration of Nicaragua\u2019s Independence Day. Nicaraguan organizations recorded human rights violations carried out with a clear intent to intimidate those who oppose the current government\u2019s policies. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[681],"tags":[],"country":[876,882],"issue":[913],"program":[873],"resource":[896],"class_list":["post-20552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","country-america-central","country-nicaragua","issue-authoritarianism-and-democratic-backsliding","program-transitional-justice-and-fight-against-impunity","resource-press-releases"],"acf":{"boton_1":"","url_boton_1\u00ba":"","boton_2":"","url_boton_2":"","boton_3":"","url_boton_3":"","boton_4":"","url_boton_4":"","boton_5":"","url_boton_5":"","boton_6":"","url_boton_6":"","boton_7":"","url_boton_7":"","boton_8":"","url_boton_8":"","boton_9":"","url_boton_9":"","boton_10":"","url_boton_10":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20553,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20552\/revisions\/20553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20552"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=20552"},{"taxonomy":"issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue?post=20552"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=20552"},{"taxonomy":"resource","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource?post=20552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}