Dalia Tarek

1 week ago | globalvoices.org | Dalia Tarek |Malka Older |Teodora C. Hasegan |Zhaoyin Feng

Since 2018, the Ortega-Rosario Murillo government in Nicaragua has used multiple repressive strategies to punish citizens who have expressed political dissent, such as persecution, harassment, imprisonment, torture, confiscation of property, and extrajudicial executions. In 2023, state authorities used a new modality for the first time to increase repression: stripping opponents of their nationality.