Nicaragua: US legislation Key for Accountability

Expand A person is arrested by riot police during a protest against the government of President Daniel Ortega in Managua, on October 14, 2018. © 2018 INTI OCON/AFP/Getty Images (Washington, DC) – United States President Donald Trump should move quickly to sign into law a bill that will allow targeted sanctions against top Nicaraguan officials and others implicated in egregious human rights violations, Human Rights Watch said today. The legislation will create a powerful tool to press the Ortega-Murillo government to end its pattern of abuse against opponents. On December 11, 2018, the US House…

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