The Colombian Ángela María Buitrago, the Chilean Alexandro Álvarez and the German Jan-Michael Simon received the mandate from the United Nations Human Rights Council
Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo (REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas)
The Colombian Ángela María Buitrago, the Chilean Alexandro Álvarez and the German Jan-Michael Simon received this Tuesday from the UN Human Rights Council the mandate to investigate possible human rights violations in Nicaragua since April 2018.
The creation of the tripartite group was already approved in a resolution by the council itself in its most recent session, last March, and This Tuesday, the current president of the organization, Argentine ambassador Federico Villegas, announced its composition.
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Simon, president of the group of experts, He is a lawyer with extensive experience in international public law who has previously worked for commissions against impunity in countries such as Guatemala or Honduras.
Buitrago , Colombian lawyer and former prosecutor, was part of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts in Mexico and has presented various expert opinions before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
A protest to demand freedom for political prisoners (EFE/Welcome Velasco)
Álvarez, also a lawyer and law professor, has worked as an international consultant on Nicaragua< /b> with the UN Human Rights Office and in his country he has carried out various tasks in defense of the fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples.
The tripartite group was entrusted with “collect, preserve and analyze information and evidence” on possible human rights violations since April 2018, when a popular revolt broke out against the regime of Daniel Ortega.
The Nicaraguan delegation to the UN Human Rights Council already announced in March, when this investigative mechanism was created, that it did not have “the country’s consent” because “it does not help promote dialogue or cooperation, encouraging confrontation and politicization” within Nacion is United.
(With information from EFE)