Nicaragua: Trumped-Up Charges Against Critics

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Lesbia Alfaro, mother of student leader Lesther Alemán, who went into exile after participating in protests against Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's government in 2018, holds a portrait of her son during an interview with AFP in Managua, on September 14, 2021. © 2021 Photo by OSWALDO RIVAS/AFP via Getty Images. (Washington, DC) – New evidence indicates that dozens of critics the Nicaraguan government arbitrarily detained for months, most of them accused of “treason,” are being held incommunicado and are often subjected to repeated interrogations and abusive conditions,…

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