UN Condemns Nicaragua: UN condemns Nicaragua for ‘forced disappearance’ of priest

PANAMA CITY: The United Nations excessive commissioner for human rights condemned the “pressured disappearance” of a Catholic bishop in Nicaragua, the place it mentioned there was a wave of arrests of spiritual figures.Bishop Isidoro Mora was “forcibly disappeared” eight days in the past, OHCHR in Central America and the Caribbean posted on social media web site X on Thursday.It accused Nicaraguan authorities of “violating the proper to spiritual freedom, a pillar of any democratic State.”President Daniel Ortega, a longtime nemesis of the USA, has in recent times clashed with the Catholic Church and focused clerics for talking out in opposition to his rule. Mora was a vocal supporter of jailed Catholic Bishop Rolando Alvarez, who’s serving a 26-year jail time period for treason.Earlier this 12 months, Alvarez refused to board a US-bound airplane with 222 different political prisoners pressured into exile.Alvarez, the bishop of Matagalpa, was additionally not included amongst 12 “indicted” monks in Nicaragua who have been launched on October 18 and despatched to Rome following an settlement between the federal government and the Vatican.Relations between the Catholic Church and Ortega’s administration have been tense ever since church buildings sheltered protesters throughout the crackdown on large anti-government demonstrations in 2018.The Vatican’s embassy in Nicaragua closed earlier this 12 months after Pope Francis in an interview referred to Ortega’s authorities as a dictatorship.