Managua, Nicaragua.- Opponents of the government of Daniel Ortega In Nicaragua, they have continued to be detained for a week, without explanation or formal accusation and without having appeared before a judge, according to what they denounced. human rights organizations Y environmentalists.
These are 19 people linked to the Yatama indigenous party who were detained by the city police bilwitogether with 12 other people when they protested in the streets last Friday against the result of the municipal elections that took place on November 6 in that region.
Amaru Ruiz, director of the environmentalist Fundación del Ríosaid that the Yatama indigenous partyto which several of the detainees would belong, formed a commission to investigate these facts.
For his part, andl Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh) reported via Twitter the arrest of “more than 50 people” during the protests in bilwi and demanded that the authorities clarify how many of them are still detained.
The Yatama Party, deeply rooted in the Nicaraguan Caribbean coast, claims to have won the mayoralties of Bilwi, Waspam and Prinzapolka.
However the Supreme Electoral Council awarded the ruler sandinista front the victory in the 153 municipalities of the country, after elections questioned by the opposition.
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According to the citizen observatory open pollsnot recognized by the government of Daniel Ortegathe electoral court “manipulated” the results of the vote in several areas of the country, in order to give victory to the Sandinistas, who before these elections already controlled 141 municipal mayoralties.
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