On February 9, 2023, after successful diplomatic negotiations with the Nicaraguan government, the Biden administration secured the release of 222 political prisoners and brought them to the United States. They include political opposition members, …

As reported in the news, 222 former political prisoners from Nicaragua arrived in the United States on Thursday, February 9, 2023. These vulnerable individuals were granted humanitarian parole and are now resettling in various locations throughout the country.

Authorities detained briefly and released other journalists with the threat they would be imprisoned unless they ceased publishing news counter to official narratives. By July, the regime blocked at least nine independent journalists from returning to Nicaragua after they exited the country briefly.

Beginning January 6, 2023, U.S-based supporters may initiate an online application process on behalf of eligible Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan nationals and their immediate family members, who are outside of the United States and lack U.S. entry documents.

The UN Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua has found reasonable grounds to believe that the authorities have committed crimes against humanity, including murder, imprisonment, torture...

On 31 March 2022, the Human Rights Council established through resolution 49/3 a group of three human rights experts on Nicaragua for a period of one year to investigate all alleged human rights violations and abuses committed in Nicaragua since April 2018.

Dec 9, 2024 · The United States condemns Nicaragua’s unabated campaign of repression. We urge full accountability for human rights abuses and authorities to cease harassment, politically motivated detention, enforced disappearance, and torture of individuals exercising their human rights and fundamental freedoms, as well as acts of transnational repression ...

According to a September report by the Violeta Barrios de Chamorro foundation titled Assault on Independent Press in Nicaragua between December 2020 and June 2021, there were 1,176 assaults on journalists while they performed their duties.

Given the propensity for violent conflict in Nicaragua and the region, the failure of the attempted national dialogues and the iron-fisted control of all state institutions by President Ortega, the international community is vital to preventing Nicaragua from plunging into another civil war.

Steadily increasing equity in access is a result of the promotion of primary care, health campaigns involving up to 10 per cent of the general population as volunteers, the use of paramedical aides, and foreign assistance. Private practice nevertheless remains strong.