victims, witnesses and other sources who contributed to the report
Cases- Location of case in SG report
- 2023-090-001
- Relevant SG report
- Year of the report
- 2023
- From Country
- Country Geolocation
Latitude: 12.865416
Longitude: -85.207229
- Country Geolocation (linked Cases)
- Nicaragua
- From Region
- UN body that raised the case prior to the SG report
- UN Human Rights Council: UN Human Rights Council - General
- UN Human Rights Council: UN Independent Investigation
- Dates of prior UN action
- March 2023
- Type of record
- Unnamed individual/group/organization
- Was the victim a foreign national?
- No
- Was the victim a minor?
- No
- Individual's/organization's activity
victims, witnesses and other sources who contributed to the report
- Type of rights defended
- Unclear in SG Report
- Was the victim a civil servant or member of the security forces or of the judiciary?
- No
- Reported trigger of reprisal
victims, witnesses and other sources who contributed to the report
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Human Rights Council: UN Independent Investigation
- Type of attempted engagement
- Submission of information to UN
- Reprisal information
- In its March 2023 report to the Human Rights Council, the Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua noted the escalation in February 2023 of the persecution against persons opposed to, or perceived as such by the Government and took measures to protect victims, witnesses and other sources who contributed to the report (A/HRC/52/CPR.5), including by withholding the names and identities of the victims and omitting most of the case studies (para. 41).
- Types of reprisals suffered
- Threats/Intimidations (incl. "fear of reprisal")
- Alleged/likely perpetrators
- State actors
- Was the reprisal based on new legislation?
- No
- Does the report make general comment about country’s environment for engagement with UN?
- Yes
- Is the country cited for a "pattern of reprisal" in the context of this case?
- No
- Is a pattern of reprisals mentioned otherwise in the context of this case?
- No
- Does the report cite "self-censorship" as an issue in the context of this case?
- No
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