US: Victims of Nicaraguan Government Risk Deportation

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Click to expand Image Activists hold signs with the names of some of the 222 former prisoners released and expelled by the Nicaraguan government, as they await their arrival at Dulles International Airport, Virginia, United States, February 9, 2023.

© 2023 Kevin Lamarque/Reuters (Washington, DC) – US immigration authorities have detained at least eight Nicaraguan exiles whom the Ortega-Murillo government has stripped of their nationality, including some with pending asylum claims, Human Rights Watch said today. Seven of the people detained were among…

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Primary source: Human Rights Watch News · October 2, 2026

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