"I can no longer stand this torture and this unjust imprisonment (...) I hold Daniel Ortega responsible for anything that happens to me in this prison or anywhere in Nicaragua," Santos Sebastian Flores Castillo told the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (CENIDH).
The organization called for her release “after considering that (Angélica Chavarría) is in a serious and urgent situation.”
Opposition denounces dictatorship, says Ortega regime is determined to “continue a policy of indoctrination” to “exterminate” churches and “make Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo the only leaders in the country”
“If they are going to be democratic, let them start with Catholics voting for the pope, for cardinals, for bishops”
Nicaraguan elections were described as "fake" by the United States and the European Union
Daniel Ortega’s regime in communist Nicaragua has freed 12 Roman Catholic priests who were imprisoned on several charges and sent them to Rome
The 56-year-old religious man was accused in December by the Prosecutor's Office of the crimes of conspiracy "to attack national integrity and propagation of false news."
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva stopped short of criticizing Daniel Ortega directly.
On October 2, the E.U. ambassador to Nicaragua, Bettina Muscheidt, was expelled by the regime of Daniel Ortega
Many Nicaraguans are fleeing political repression and human rights abuses of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega