The Nicaraguan government released more than 200 political prisoners, many of whom arrived in the United States on Thursday, according to officials, following years of repression by the country’s President Daniel Ortega.
The authoritarian leader has jailed dozens of opposition figures and activists, particularly in the lead up to the last elections in November of 2021. Judge Octavio Rothschuh Andino announced the release of at least 222 inmates by the Nicaraguan penitentiary system at a press conference on Thursday, saying several were already en route to the US.
Another freed political prisoner, Juan S. Chamorro, who was a pre-candidate in the 2021 presidential elections, told CNNEE that he realized something was up when “they gave us our clothes in the middle of the night and put us on some buses.” Chamorro, who has been in jail since June 2021, added: “We didn’t know where we were going.
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