ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 8, 2024 / 17:20 pm
The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has called on the Nicaraguan dictatorship “to urgently report” where it is holding the bishop of Siuna, Isidoro del Carmen Mora Ortega.
“We urge the government of Nicaragua to urgently report the whereabouts of Bishop Mora, a victim of forced disappearance for 16 days. Concealing this information and isolating him from his family and legal representatives puts his life and personal safety at risk,” the U.N. office stated Jan. 5 on X.
The human rights organization also reposted its Dec. 28 statement condemning the forced detention of the prelate “and the new wave of arrests of religious.”
“In addition to violating their personal freedom, they would be violating the right to religious freedom, a pillar of any democratic state,” the OHCHR stated on X after Mora’s arrest, which took place on Dec. 20.