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Nicaragua releases prisoners, national dialog starts
Source: Reuters
WORLD NEWS FEBRUARY 27, 2019 / 10:10 AM / UPDATED 24 MINUTES AGO
Nicaragua releases prisoners, national dialog starts
Ismael Lopez
3 MIN READ
MANAGUA (Reuters) - The Nicaraguan government on Wednesday released dozens of people the opposition considers political prisoners, a human rights group said, hours before government and opposition leaders were due to restart talks aimed at ending a national crisis.
Pablo Cuevas, an attorney for the Permanent Commission of Human Rights, a non-governmental organization, said the detainees began leaving penitentiaries in the morning.
Nicaragua has been in a deep political crisis since President Daniel Ortega attempted social security reform last year, leading to massive protests. The ensuing chaos put the poor Central American nation in recession.
Ortega, a Cold War era former guerilla fighter who won elected office in 2006, unleashed a brutal government crackdown. Some 320 people were killed and more than 600 imprisoned, according to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
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Nicaragua releases prisoners, national dialog starts
Ismael Lopez
3 MIN READ
MANAGUA (Reuters) - The Nicaraguan government on Wednesday released dozens of people the opposition considers political prisoners, a human rights group said, hours before government and opposition leaders were due to restart talks aimed at ending a national crisis.
Pablo Cuevas, an attorney for the Permanent Commission of Human Rights, a non-governmental organization, said the detainees began leaving penitentiaries in the morning.
Nicaragua has been in a deep political crisis since President Daniel Ortega attempted social security reform last year, leading to massive protests. The ensuing chaos put the poor Central American nation in recession.
Ortega, a Cold War era former guerilla fighter who won elected office in 2006, unleashed a brutal government crackdown. Some 320 people were killed and more than 600 imprisoned, according to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nicaragua-politics/nicaragua-releases-prisoners-national-dialog-starts-idUSKCN1QG22Y
