EP resolution condemns Ortega‑Murillo repression in Nicaragua

EP Position

The Parliament strongly condemns widespread, systemic human rights violations by the Ortega‑Murillo regime and urges the immediate release of those arbitrarily detained, the restoration of the rule of law and the legal status and freedoms of organisations and exiled individuals as preconditions for meaningful dialogue. It denounces the use of statelessness and exile against dissenters, calls on the regime to reverse its constitutional reform and repressive laws, asks that UN human rights recommendations be implemented and extended, urges Member States to open International Criminal Court investigations for crimes against humanity, and reiterates calls to expand the list of sanctioned individuals and to extradite Alessio Casimirri.

Key Trade Point

The resolution calls for the EU to include explicit human rights guarantees when allocating EU funds, including via multilateral and financial institutions, and to ensure those funds do not strengthen the Ortega‑Murillo regime; it also reiterates a demand to trigger the democratic clause of the EU Association Agreement and rejects parliamentary dialogue with the regime‑controlled National Assembly.

What Comes Next

The Parliament instructs its President to forward the adopted resolution to the Council, the Commission, the Vice‑President/High Representative, the Member States and the Nicaraguan authorities.