The transfer is a part of a crackdown in opposition to teams seen as hostile to President Daniel Ortega.
Nicaragua’s authorities has outlawed 1,500 non-governmental organisations, a part of a longstanding crackdown on civil society teams seen as hostile by President Daniel Ortega.
The transfer, revealed within the official authorities gazette on Monday, additionally entails the confiscation of property belonging to the principally spiritual teams by the state.
The Nicaraguan Pink Cross and a number of other Catholic charities are among the many NGOs shuttered so far, with many hit by expenses dismissed as spurious.
Different targets embody rotary and chess golf equipment, sports activities associations and groupings of small merchants, rural folks and pensioners, in addition to Catholic radio stations and universities.
“They haven’t fulfilled their obligations,” in line with the Inside Ministry decision revealed within the gazette, which claimed the teams have didn’t disclose a variety of monetary info together with donations.
Ortega’s crackdown on civil society, in addition to the Catholic Church, has intensified since anti-government protests erupted in 2018.
In whole, authorities have shut down greater than 5,000 civil society teams, personal universities and media retailers.
Final week, the federal government additionally handed a regulation requiring NGOs to work solely in “partnership alliances” with state entities.
Furthermore, final yr, the federal government expelled greater than 300 politicians, journalists, intellectuals and activists, accusing them of treason.
Al Jazeera has additionally been banned from Nicaragua and might solely report from exterior the nation.
Reporting from Mexico on Monday, Al Jazeera’s John Holman mentioned that as a result of suppression of human rights, a whole lot of hundreds of individuals have fled to neighbouring nations like Costa Rica.
“It [the government crackdown] has type of left a black gap within the nation when it comes to dissent,” he mentioned. “With selections like this [Monday’s NGO ban]… the scenario is getting worse.”
Ortega grew to become the chief of Nicaragua first as the top of a navy authorities in 1979, after preventing as a guerrilla within the Sandinista motion that toppled the United States-backed Somoza household dictatorship.
He was later elected because the nation’s president in 1985.
Crushed in elections in 1990, he returned to energy in 2007 and has since quashed presidential time period limits and seized management of all branches of the state.
Whereas his regime is below US and European Union sanctions, throughout the nation, human rights suppression continues.
Final month, a gaggle of United Nations specialists slammed “systematic and widespread abuses of worldwide human rights legislation” within the Central American nation.
In a press release final week, the Inter-American Fee on Human Rights additionally urged an finish to rights abuses in Nicaragua.
The group mentioned that the repression of rights “characterised by spiritual persecution, the continuation of arbitrary detentions and the intense circumstances wherein these in jail stay” ought to come to an finish.
