Nicaragua’s government committed crimes against humanity: UN experts
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters Nicaragua’s government has committed serious and systematic violations which amount to crimes against humanity, a United Nations-appointed team of human rights experts said on Thursday, calling for international sanctions against the government. The three-person body said the government has committed, and continues to commit, acts of torture, extrajudicial executions, arbitrary detention since […]
Updated: Nicaragua police discount arson in fire at cathedral
Updated: 12.30pm (AEST)Managua, NicaraguaAP Nicaragua’s National Police on Monday declared a fire inside Managua’s Metropolitan Cathedral accidental shortly after the Vatican’s top diplomatic envoy to the country said he had requested a “serious, careful and transparent investigation”. What the Managua archdiocese and Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes had called a terrorist attack, the police said was the […]