Nicaragua withdraws from the UN Human Rights Council

Nicaragua decided, on Thursday (27), to withdraw from the UN Human Rights Council, in disapproval of the report of a group of experts from the body that accuses the government of having a “repression machine” and ending the rule of law in the Central American country.

“Nicaragua conveys its sovereign and irrevocable decision to withdraw from the Human Rights Council and all the activity related to this council and all its satellite mechanisms,” Nicaragua’s official Rosario Murillo, Nicaragua, with his husband, Daniel Ortega, announced in the official media.

Ortega, a 79-year-old guerrilla who ruled Nicaragua in the 1980s following the triumph of the Sandinista Revolution, has been in power since 2007 and his critics have accused him of establishing a “family dictatorship” along with his 73-year-old wife.