The Nicaraguan regime ratified an amendment that strips those convicted of “treason against the country” of their nationality.

This National Assembly of NicaraguaControlled by governance, sanctioned a Constitutional reform which allows the removal of nationality from convicted NicaraguansBetrayal of the country“, a legal entity used to persecute opponents and critics of the dictatorship. Daniel Ortega.

An amendment amending Article 21 of Magna Carta was voted on in a special session held on the second occasion. Dario CityBirthplace of poet Ruben Dario (1867-1916).

The measure establishes that “the acquisition, loss and recovery of nationality shall be regulated by law. This Traitors “They lose their status as Nicaraguan citizens.”

This provision was already approved February 9, 2023

on the same day 222 political prisonersSeven of those presidential candidates were released from prison and expelled USAAfter being accused and sentenced for “treason against the country”.

The next day, the Court of Appeals of Managua, Related to the dictatorship, it ordered the withdrawal of nationality from 222 Nicaraguans, based on a “special law regulating the loss of Nicaraguan nationality”, but approved. 10 Feb.

The law states that “those convicted in accordance with the provisions of the Law for the Protection of the Rights of the People to Self-Determination for Freedom, Sovereignty and Peace, published on December 22, 2020, shall lose Nicaraguan nationality.”

In addition to losing nationality, 222 former political prisoners were disqualified for life from holding public office or popular election, and their civil rights were suspended.

On February 15, 95 others, including the authors Sergio Ramirez and Gioconda BelliAuxiliary Bishop of Managua, Silvio Baseand former guerrillas Louis CarrionHe was also stripped of his nationality, after being charged with “treason against the country”, without trial or conviction.

Those affected by the move have decried that the Nicaraguan Constitution, in its Article 20, which has not been amended, guarantees that “No nation can be deprived of its nationality

. The quality of being a Nicaraguan national is not lost by acquiring another nationality.

Nicaragua is going through it political crisis and social since April 2018, which has been further emphasized after the controversial general elections of November 7, 2021, in which Ortega was re-elected for a fourth consecutive term and a second fifth term with his wife, Rosario MurilloAs Vice President, with his main contenders in jail or exile.

On Tuesday, the Ortega regime revoked the legal status of 16 non-profit organizationsIncluding 7 who requested their voluntary dissolution and a total of 10 are Catholic and/or evangelical.

The dissolution of these 16 Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) was approved by the Home Minister, MARIA AMELIA CORONALAccording to the two ministerial agreements published in Nicaragua’s official gazette, La Gazeta.

According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, 9 NGOs were outlawed for non-compliance with regulating laws, while another 7 were canceled due to voluntary dissolution..

The entity argued that it unilaterally closed those 9 NGOs because they violated their obligations, according to the law regulating them, and obstructed the control and supervision of the General Directorate of Registration and Control of Non-Profit Organizations.

With the closure of these 16 NGOs, More than 3,550 such institutions have been dissolved After popular protests erupted in April 2018.

Unilaterally illegal NGOs include Jehovah Will Provide Pentecost Mission Association, Holy Missionaries of the Holy Savior Foundation, Evangelistic and Prophetic Apostolic Mission Association, Missionaries of Company of Mary Association, Nueva Restoration Family Church Foundation and Transworld. Mission Association of Nicaragua, among others. .

(with information from EFE)