February 28, 2025 | 04:32 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Nicaragua announced on Thursday that it will withdraw from the UN Human Rights Council. This followed a UN report urging the international community to address human rights violations committed by President Daniel Ortega's government.
As reported by Reuters on Friday, February 28, 2025, the Vice President and First Lady, Rosario Murillo, called the decision "sovereign and irrevocable." She stated that Nicaragua would cease participation in all activities related to the UN Human Rights Council and its "satellite mechanisms."
The UN report, released on Wednesday, accused Ortega and Murillo, who also serves as vice president, of "transformed the country into an authoritarian state where no independent institutions remain."
UN experts called for legal action against Nicaragua, highlighting human rights violations in the Latin American country, which they believe follow a pattern previously designated as crimes against humanity.
The Ortega government has previously dismissed reports from the UN and the Organization of American States, which they see as part of an international campaign against them.
Murillo regarded the UN report as "falsehoods" and "slander."
Nicaragua experienced mass anti-government protests in 2018, when Ortega's heavy-handed actions against dissent resulted in the deaths of over 350 people and drew international condemnation for human rights abuses.
The UN report also implicated the Nicaraguan army in these actions, although this has been denied.
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