The State Department has also imposed new visa restrictions on Maduro-aligned officials who have undermined the electoral process in Venezuela and are responsible for acts of repression
This group is part of the 222 Nicaraguan politicians, journalists, human rights defenders and lawyers who were released from prison on February 9 and expelled to the United States by the Ortega dictatorship
Human Rights organizations have long accused the Ortega regime of taking the relatives of exiled political opponents as “hostages”
The three-hour Zoom call also include discussions on human rights, climate change, trade
Many Nicaraguans are fleeing political repression and human rights abuses of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega
The Republicans laid some of the blame for Beijing’s draconian COVID lockdowns on President Joe Biden and corporations for going easy on China over coronavirus and other human rights abuses.
According to local human rights organization who have been monitoring the burned facility, doors were padlocked and migrants were stripped of their property leaving them little opportunity to start a fire—or escape
2021 was the worst year in two decades for human rights in the island
The Cuban scientist and opposition leader demands that the United Nations denounce the human rights violations against him and his sister, professor Omara Ruiz