The United Nations named 54 officials from Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's government who it said are responsible for serious human rights violations and crimes, in what was described as a “tightly coordinated system of repression.”
In a 234-page report, the UN Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua revealed structures of systematic repression that quelled anti-government protests that erupted in 2018 and left at least 350 dead and hundreds detained.
The officials named "played key roles in arbitrary detentions, torture, extrajudicial executions, persecution of civil society and the media, denationalization campaigns, and the confiscation of private property," a statement accompanying the report said.
The officials cited include military officers and members of the ruling party.
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