As the Ortega regime tightens its repressive grip on Nicaragua, religious persecution is at an all-time high.
In a country with a majority Catholic population, the government has conducted a cutthroat campaign to silence its opponents, targeting religious orders, Catholic institutions, and media in addition to ordinary people of faith for simply living their lives in accordance with their beliefs. With everything and everyone that stands against the regime under threat, the state of human rights in Nicaragua is dire.when he refused exile to stay with his people.
Bishop Álvarez subsequently was stripped of his citizenship and convicted in a highly irregular trial, which he didn't even know was happening and at which he therefore could not testify. Further, he was deprived of his lawyer of choice and his lawyer was later barred from accessing essential information about the case.
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