Former Sandinista commander Henry Ruiz, 81, is under house arrest in Nicaragua as Ortega’s regime targets critics. Read the latest on this crackdown.

Five of the seven women are classified as suffering “forced disappearance,” their exact whereabouts and condition unknown.

Nicaragua announced last week it is withdrawing from the United Nations Human Rights Council, following a U.N. report that slammed the government’s human rights violations and warned the country was ...

One day after the fundraising event was prohibited, the organization's president, Jose Evenor Taboada, was exiled from ...

Nicaragua has withdrawn from the United Nations Human Rights Council following a damning report by U N experts accusing ...

Ortega first served as president from 1985 to 1990 as a former guerrilla hero who helped oust the US-backed Somoza regime, and returned to power in 2007. Nicaragua has jailed hundreds of opponents ...

San José (AFP) – Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, under sanctions for human rights abuses, has sworn in 30,000 hooded civilians as a "volunteer police" force the opposition fears will be ...

Member of the Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua Ariela Peralta Distefano ... strongest rebuke of the government of President Daniel Ortega and first lady and now co-president Rosario ...

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, under sanctions for human rights abuses, has sworn in 30,000 hooded civilians as a "volunteer police" force the opposition fears will be used as a tool of political ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Nicaraguan government has dismantled ... latest and strongest rebuke of the government of President Daniel Ortega and first lady and now co-president Rosario Murillo ...