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(CNN Spanish) - The United Nations Human Rights Council adopted this Friday, with 24 votes in favor, 19 abstentions and 4 votes against, a resolution that denounces human rights violations by the Nicaraguan Government since April 2018, when massive protests broke out against the management of Daniel Ortega.
In the document, the agency mentions concern over "the disproportionate use of the police force" to suppress the protests, and "the commission of acts of violence by armed groups, as well as reports of constant cases of illegal detention and imprisonment. arbitrary, harassment, and torture and acts of sexual and gender violence during detention. ”
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The Council urges the Nicaraguan Government to respect the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly, association and expression, as well as the independence of the media, the Prosecutor's Office and the Judiciary.
The Government of Nicaragua has not officially reacted to this resolution.
CNN requested a reaction from the Communication and Citizenship Council coordinated by Vice President Rosario Murillo, but still did not receive a response to the request.
Murillo also did not refer to the resolution in his call to the official media on June 19.
The National Police has been banning opposition marches and sit-ins since September 2018, arguing that the organizers do not meet the established requirements, alter public order, citizen peace, have a criminal record or participated in what the Government calls "attempt coup d'état ”.
The facilities of the 100% Noticias channel and the offices of the weekly Confidencial have been taken over by police since December 2018, as reported by their owners, journalists Miguel Mora and Carlos Fernando Chamorro.
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The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) welcomed the resolution and joined the call made to the Nicaraguan State to resume its collaboration with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the IACHR, to stop the repression and reestablish guarantees in the country, according to a statement published on his Twitter account.
The Council resolution also urges the Government of Nicaragua and the electoral institutions to “implement legal and institutional reforms in order to guarantee the holding of free, fair, transparent and credible elections in accordance with international norms, with the presence of electoral observers. independent national and international ”.
President Daniel Ortega said on July 19, 2019 that they will make "the necessary adjustments" in the Constitution and the Electoral Law so that when the time comes "nobody complains that his party stole the elections in 2021."
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