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Nicaragua: newly banished Nicaraguans describe torture in prison
“It was an ordeal I thought would never end,” says one of the 135 political
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Central America and the Caribbean
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Nicaragua: political prisoners
A human rights disaster that for years has received too little international attention.
The human rights record
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Central America and the Caribbean
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La represión es más brutal si sos LGTBI, dicen ex presas políticas.
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Nicaragua: amnistía alerta sobre coronavirus en cárceles
DW
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Nicaragua: El deterioro de los derechos humanos dificulta la celebración de comicios libres en Nicaragua, alerta Michelle Bachelet
La crisis social
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Nicaragua: mujeres transgénero denuncian abusos en las cárceles
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Nicaragua
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Nicaragua : deux figures de l’opposition condamnées pour « conspiration »
L’ex-guérillera Dora Maria Tellez et le leader étudiant Lesther Aleman ont
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Nicaragua: The country frees hundreds of political prisoners to the United States
The authoritarian government of Daniel Ortega handed over 222
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El Gobierno de Nicaragua informó este lunes que un total de 142 personas, entre opositores y periodistas, permanecen detenidos en las cárceles del país, tras varios procesos de excarcelación de “presos políticos” acordada con la oposición en una negociación enmarcada en la crisis sociopolítica que…
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El encarcelamiento significa ser recluidas en pequeñas celdas junto con hombres, donde temen ser atacadas a causa de su activismo y su identidad de género.
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La mayoría de los presos fueron detenidos por mostrar rechazo al Gobierno del presidente Daniel Ortega.
El Comité Internacional de la Cruz Roja (CICR) ha empezado a visitar las cárceles de Nicaragua para conocer de la situación de cientos de “presos políticos”, informó la opositora Alianza Cívica p…
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Nicaragua: envejecidos, pálidos y escuálidos: las huellas del orteguismo en los presos políticos
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La justicia de Ortega y Murillo inventa “audiencias informativas” para exhibir a los presos políticos tras más de 400 días en El Chipote.
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Colombia and Nicaragua have announced they will move thousands of prisoners into house arrest with priority given to the elderly, pregnant women and those
Life imprisonment: a sentence in dire need of reform
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ICPR and Prison Insider asked several experts worldwide to share their insights in the framework of the project ‘Understanding and reducing the use of imprisonment in 10 countries’. In this piece, Olivia Rope, Executive Director of Penal Reform International (PRI), discusses life sentences, a key p…
Women bearing the weight of the law
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More and more women across the world are being imprisoned, mostly for minor, non-violent offences. What discriminatory and punitive logic is being applied? What is being done to fight back against it?
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The Covid-19 does not stop at prison gates. Prisoners often live in overcrowded cells and unsanitary contexts, sharing cells.
What measures are taken to guarantee the safety of all prisoners and prison staff? What are the consequences of the pandemic on the living conditions in prisons? — Update 31…