Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Government of Nicaragua on the alleged abuse of human rights in that country.
The UK remains deeply concerned by the situation in Nicaragua. The climate of repression, shrinking space for freedom of expression, restrictions on the right to peaceful assembly, and reports of harassment and arbitrary detentions, represent an unacceptable degradation of human rights and democracy.
The UK has repeatedly called on the Nicaraguan Government, including at the UN Security Council and in its comments on the May 2019 Universal Periodic Review of Nicaragua, to take responsibility for ending the repression against its citizens and to cease the use of excessive force against protestors.
We strongly support the announcement of EU sanctions against six high level officials in the Ortega administration and are applying these sanctions domestically.