#Nicaragua #Managua #Sandinista
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Nicaragua's parliament has passed a much criticized law on "Regulating Foreign Agents". Accordingly, people and organizations who receive money from abroad and are active in Nicaragua must register as "foreign agents" in the future.
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Nicaragua's parliament has passed a much criticized law on "Regulating Foreign Agents". Accordingly, people and organizations who receive money from abroad and are active in Nicaragua must register as "foreign agents" in the future.
They have to regularly report to the authorities about the use of these funds and are excluded from political activities. According to the Sandinista ruling party FSLN of the authoritarian President @DanielOrtegasa, this is intended to combat foreign interference in Nicaragua.
The socialist FSLN, which controls the parliament of the Central American country, approved the law that it had introduced itself on Thursday with 70 to 17 votes.
The head of the opposition alliance Alianza Cívica, Juan Sebastián Chamorro, condemned the law as a violation of human rights such as the constitution. It aims to make opponents of the "dictatorship" incapable of action.
He spoke of the "Putin Law" because it is similar to a regulation in Russia - since 2012, non-governmental organizations there have had to register as foreign agents if they finance themselves with money from abroad.
Last week, the European Parliament passed a resolution calling on EU heads of state and government to extend sanctions already imposed on Ortega supporters to include the president and his wife and vice-president Rosario Murillo,
should the law and two others be passed in Nicaragua. One of the other laws is aimed at cybercrime and could, among other things, impose prison sentences on critical posts on social media. The other provides life sentences for vaguely defined "hate crimes".
Both could be approved by the National Assembly in Managua in the coming days.
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