Q24N () More Nicaraguans are prevented from returning to their country under a change in the immigration law that allows the denial of the entry of its citizens if they are considered a threat to the peace and security of the country.
Since 2023, nearly 500 Nicaraguans have been stripped of their nationality.
Lists are periodically updated by the Ministry of the Interior and banishments are increasing, confirm UN experts
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Immigration authorities use these lists to compare names with another updated list they receive periodically from the Interior Ministry, about cases where there might be an alert, to order a person’s banishment.
Immigration officials complement the information received from the Ministry of the Interior with searches for information about the individuals mentioned on the internet and social media, and any data, social media post, or link considered “suspicious” is enough to create a file about the traveling person and consider them unfit to enter the country.
In these cases, the airline or bus company contacts the person through a WhatsApp message, email, or phone call and informs them that they are prohibited from entering Nicaragua, without providing further explanation, but informing them to contact Nicaraguan authorities, who then ignore the messages.
Nicaraguan victims of these banishments have been mostly journalists, priests, academics, lawyers, human rights defenders, and relatives of victims and of the arbitrarily deprived of their nationality.
These people have been unable to return to Nicaragua from Argentina, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Spain, the United States, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Panama, among others.
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