Nicaraguan universities expel students against Ortega

Students from Nicaraguan state universities are saying they have been expelled from their institutions and turned over to the police and accused of terrorism for participating in protests against the dictatorial socialist regime of Daniel Ortega, with more than 100 students expelled for political reasons, writes Karina Martín for Panam Post.

“As we are return to school, the police are going to have our names and faces, because there is a complaint against us from the Prosecutor’s Office,” a student explained to the La Prensa newspaper. The student, who attends the National University of Engineering, did not want to identify himself in order to avoid reprisals. The National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN) in Managua was carrying out a similar process in which they expelled certain students, who days later were captured and presented as terrorists.

It should be noted that more than 100 students have been expelled for political reasons, while eight students have been accused of terrorism at UNAN in Managua. Among them is Jonathan Lopez, a member of the Articulation of Social Movements and the Civic Alliance. “Many people say that in our country it is dangerous to be young. I would add that it is even more dangerous to be a student because the authorities see someone with a backpack and they begin to persecute him, arrest him, and violate his civil rights,” argued Pablo Cuevas, a lawyer from the Permanent Commission of Human Rights.
Full report on the Panam Post site