We specific grave concern on the continued disregard of Nicaragua for its worldwide human rights obligations, together with to respect the precise to freedom of faith or perception.
We word and condemn a marked improve in hostility, discrimination and persecution in Nicaragua, specifically the restrictions regarding the Catholic Church. In keeping with NGO reporting, in lower than 4 years the Catholic Church in Nicaragua has been the goal of 190 assaults and desecrations, together with a hearth in Managua Cathedral in addition to police harassment and concentrating on of bishops and clergymen, and the unwarranted closure of at the least eight Catholic radio stations. The Nicaraguan Authorities has additionally expelled the Apostolic Nuncio, Bishop Waldemar Stanislaw Sommertag, and members of the Sisters of the Cross and Mom Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity, a few of whom had been working in Nicaragua for over 30 years. We additionally word the expulsion of spiritual organisations in Nicaragua who ran colleges and medical centres.
We word and condemn the concentrating on of Catholic leaders and specifically the Catholic bishop of Matagalpa, Bishop Rolando José Álvarez, who has been positioned below home arrest and threatened with jail or exile. We additionally word that quite a lot of Catholic clergymen are being held unjustly, some with out costs, within the El Chipote jail.
We name for the speedy launch of Bishop Alvarez and different clergymen being unjustly detained, and for freedom of faith or perception for all to be restored.
We be part of with worldwide requires Nicaragua to respect human rights, following the Decision adopted by the United Nations Human Rights Council on 31 March 2022. We additionally name upon Nicaragua to cooperate with worldwide and regional human rights mechanisms, notably the Workplace of the United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights, together with its regional workplace in Central America, and the particular procedures of the Human Rights Council.
Signatories who affiliate themselves with this assertion: U.S., UK, Croatia, Slovakia, Lithuania, Malta, Georgia, Romania, Taiwan, Sweden, Brazil, Poland, Slovenia, Colombia, Latvia, Czech Republic, Estonia, the Netherlands.
