The Human Rights Council The United Nations approved the resolution on Thursday Which will form a group of three experts To investigate possible violations of human rights On Nicaragua Since April 2018, when a popular revolution broke out that was described as an attempted coup by the regime of Daniel Ortega.
The solution, It approved by 20 votes in favor of the member states, and seven against (Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Honduras, Russia, China, and Eritrea). And 20 countries abstaining, they decided to set up this investigative mechanism with a mandate to “collect, preserve and analyze information and evidence” about these potential human rights violations, and “identify those responsible,” EFE reported.
with an initial period of one year, This mission will have a mission similar to that approved in 2019 for Venezuela Through another Human Rights Council resolution, it made it the second investigative mechanism of its kind for Latin American countries.
The resolution was introduced by Ecuador, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Paraguay and Peru, and was sponsored by nearly fifty governments.
The document also expressed concern about “the deterioration of democracy and the human rights situation in Nicaragua”.where there was “an increase in restrictions on democratic space and in the suppression of dissent.”
This repression includes “acts of intimidation, harassment, and unlawful or arbitrary surveillance of human rights defenders,” and affirms the text that regrets the lack of accountability for these events for four years, as well as the prohibition of peaceful demonstrations and trials without due process of law.
The document calls on the Nicaraguan authorities to stop arbitrary arrests and intimidationImmediately release unjustly detained persons and investigate cases of harassment of political leaders, journalists, activists and other critics of the Ortega government.
Frankly mentions and regrets The recent death of political prisoner Hugo Torresa former Sandinista guerrilla fighter who died on February 12 after months of detention “in infamous circumstances”.
The resolution also shows his concern about violations of civil and political rights in the context of the presidential elections in November In the past he regretted “the Nicaraguan government’s failure to implement electoral and institutional reforms that guarantee free and fair elections”.
Prior to the vote on the resolution, Nicaragua’s attorney general, Wendy Carolina Morales, intervened by videoconference to show the Nicaraguan government’s “absolute rejection” of this and other decisions of the Human Rights Council in recent years that condemned the situation in the center of the country. American country.
He stressed that the texts of these resolutions “continue to make assessments derived from the economic and political interests of imperialist countries whose sole objective is to affect the dignity and sovereignty of peoples.”
The delegations of the member states of the Council that voted against itsuch as Venezuela, Cuba, China or Russia, They agreed to reject the text which in their opinion involved interference in the internal affairs of Nicaragua political motives.
The Chinese delegation stressed that the investigation mechanism that was established “does not enjoy the approval of the state and does not help in promoting dialogue or cooperation, encouraging confrontation and politicizing this council,” while Venezuela confirmed that the group of experts will have “semi-conditional powers.” .
however, Countries in the region such as Mexico and Argentina voted in favor of the mechanism.
In Nicaragua, the UN’s investigative mechanism was requested last month by civil society actors such as Collective 46/2, which includes 16 national and international human rights organizations.
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