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Q24N - The Ortega dictatorship expelled the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from Nicaragua. On Monday, December 18, 2023, the ICRC published on its website the closure of its offices in Nicaragua at the "request of the Nicaraguan authorities... thus ending its humanitarian mission in the country". "In 2018, the ICRC received authorization…
The International Red Cross reiterates that its mission in Nicaragua was focused solely on humanitarian objectives.
The organization issued a statement detailing only that they are closing operations ‘at the request of the authorities.’ The end of their humanitarian work leaves political prisoners completely unprotected
Threats, jail, exile, and annulment of their legal status are some of the Ortega-Murillo government’s strategies to silence the human rights defenders
ICRC confirmed that they received a letter from the informing them that they are withdrawing their “approval” of the Chief of Mission