Germany has categorically rejected legal action brought by Nicaragua that it is facilitating genocide in providing support to Israel in the war in the Gaza Strip. “These allegations are completely without legal or factual foundation,” Tania von Uslar-Gleichen, head of the German delegation to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), said in The Hague on […]
SAN JOSE (Reuters) – Nicaragua’s government committed human rights violations that amount to “crimes against humanity,” a United Nations-appointed team of human rights experts said in a report on Thursday. The report called for President Daniel Ortega and his wife and vice president, Rosario Murillo, to be “held accountable by the international community” for widespread […]
The United Nations has accused Nicaragua’s government of committing “serious systematic human rights violations, tantamount to crimes against humanity” after an investigation into the expanding crackdown on political dissent. The government of President Daniel Ortega has gone after opponents for years, hitting a turning point during mass protests in 2018 that resulted in a violent […]
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Nicaragua has filed an application with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to join South Africa in its genocide case against Israel, the ICJ, also known as the World Court, said on Thursday. The court said in a statement that Nicaragua considers that the conduct of Israel is in “violation of its […]
Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry sent a note of protest to Nicaragua in response to a visit by a Russian delegation from occupied Crimea, the ministry’s spokesperson, Oleh Nikolenko, said on Feb. 2. Russia has illegally occupied Crimea since 2014. Although the peninsula remains broadly recognized as Ukraine’s sovereign territory, Nicaragua was one of the few countries […]
By Ismael Lopez SAN JOSE (Reuters) -Nicaraguan police on Friday arrested three more Catholic priests, bringing the number of clergymen detained this week to at least nine, according to sources close to the local church leadership, including one who is a high-ranking church member. The three sources, who requested anonymity for fear of arrest, said […]
By Ismael Lopez SAN JOSE (Reuters) – Nicaraguan police detained four more priests early on Saturday, bringing the total number to 12 over the past three days, according to a high-ranking member of the Catholic Church with knowledge of the matter and local media. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, who has governed the Central American country […]