- 22 Feb 2023 06:10
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Nicaragua Strips Citizenship From Hundreds Days After Prisoner Release
The Nicaraguan government agreed to release political prisoners, their own citizens, sending them to the United States, but then decided to take away their citizenship rights.
Nicaragua has stripped more than 300 political opponents of their citizenship over the past week, in another sign that the country's authoritarian president has no intention of easing his grip at home despite a deal, completed days earlier, that freed hundreds of political prisoners and sent them to the United States.
An appeals court justice announced the latest move, to revoke the citizenship of 94 people, on Wednesday, just after the government did the same to the 222 people who were sent to the United States last week.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230217202 ... dents.html
I've been critical of our ridiculous asylum process, in which anyone with a pulse can apply for asylum, but these are actual political prisoners.
The current President of Nicaragua, Ortega, is a Marxist (clearly far to the Left).
Apparently repression against his political opponents increased in 2021, after Biden became President in the United States. Countries in this Central American region usually try to moderate their actions so as not to draw intervention from their big neighbor in the region the United States.
He probably guessed, and probably correctly, that with Biden as President in the United States, he had little reason to worry about any response from the U.S.
The Nicaraguan government agreed to release political prisoners, their own citizens, sending them to the United States, but then decided to take away their citizenship rights.
Nicaragua has stripped more than 300 political opponents of their citizenship over the past week, in another sign that the country's authoritarian president has no intention of easing his grip at home despite a deal, completed days earlier, that freed hundreds of political prisoners and sent them to the United States.
An appeals court justice announced the latest move, to revoke the citizenship of 94 people, on Wednesday, just after the government did the same to the 222 people who were sent to the United States last week.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230217202 ... dents.html
I've been critical of our ridiculous asylum process, in which anyone with a pulse can apply for asylum, but these are actual political prisoners.
The current President of Nicaragua, Ortega, is a Marxist (clearly far to the Left).
Apparently repression against his political opponents increased in 2021, after Biden became President in the United States. Countries in this Central American region usually try to moderate their actions so as not to draw intervention from their big neighbor in the region the United States.
He probably guessed, and probably correctly, that with Biden as President in the United States, he had little reason to worry about any response from the U.S.
- By Istanbuller
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