CRC condemns denationalization and confiscation of 135 political prisoners

The Nicaraguan Democratic Concertation (CDN), condemns the illegal decision of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) in the service of the Ortega Murillo regime, to strip the Nicaraguan nationality and confiscate the assets of the 135 people imprisoned for political reasons who, through the efforts of the United States government, last week were released from prison and exiled to Guatemala.

With this arbitrary action of deprivation of nationality, the effective enjoyment of human rights is affected and the 135 prisoners of conscience, who now join the first group of 222 prisoners and 94 people from different sectors of society, against whom this crime was committed in February 2023, are left more vulnerable. They are joined by hundreds of other Nicaraguans who have also been de facto stripped of their nationality.

The Ortega Murillo regime, in its strategy of political persecution against dissident voices, again violated Articles 8 and 9 of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

The United Nations Human Rights Council has stated that arbitrary deprivation of nationality undermines the full enjoyment of all human rights and the fundamental freedom of an individual. Furthermore, with this new violation of the fundamental rights of Nicaraguans, crimes against humanity continue to be committed.