A protester holds a Nicaraguan flag over a building during a spontaneous protest against Daniel Ortega's government in Managua on June 1, 2018. Photo: Carlos Herrera / DPA / PA Images. All rights reserved.
On Wednesday December 12 the National Assembly of Nicaragua voted to cancel the legal registration of Centro Nicaraguense de Derechos Humanos (CENIDH). After the announcement Vilma Nuñez, 80 years old, the president of CENIDH and one of the most recognized human rights defenders in the region declared "We have done our work with conviction and we will continue doing it until Nicaragua is really free”.
Just a week earlier I met Doña Vilma, as she is known, in Washington DC when she came with a delegation of human rights organizations from Nicaragua to participate in a hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and present their testimony about the continuous repression in the country.
