From the beginning of June, the government of President Daniel Ortega intensified its strategy for repression in a so-called “clean-up” operation, targeting protesters with arbitrary arrests, torture, and the widespread and indiscriminate use of lethal force by police and heavily armed pro-government forces, said Amnesty International today in a new report. Released six months after … Continue reading Nicaragua: Authorities stepped up strategy for repression, committing grave human rights violations during ‘clean-up operation’