During his first term, President Donald Trump exerted a “maximum pressure” campaign against perceived U.S. adversaries in ...

CLERGY in Nicaragua are being forced to report to the police weekly, and to seek approval for the content of their services, ...

Former Sandinista commander Henry Ruiz, 81, is under house arrest in Nicaragua as Ortega’s regime targets critics. Read the latest on this crackdown.

Syria did not have free and fair elections under the Assads, and ruling party elites could not check the leader’s power. When citizens mobilized peacefully in 2011 to oust the Assad regime, loyal ...

The riot squads and the hooded “voluntary police” are the shock forces of the regime to squash any internal dissent.

Five of the seven women are classified as suffering “forced disappearance,” their exact whereabouts and condition unknown.

Nicaragua announced last week it is withdrawing from the United Nations Human Rights Council, following a U.N. report that slammed the government’s human ...

U.S. programs supporting opposition activists, political prisoners and religious groups in countries controlled by authoritarian parties in Latin America have been halted ...

Nicaragua has withdrawn from the United Nations Human Rights Council following a damning report by U N experts accusing ...

Reporters Without Borders condemns Nicaragua's celebration of Journalist Day as a 'shameful farce' while Ortega's regime ...

Nicaragua's protracted political crisis ... with the opposition demanding the ouster of President Daniel Ortega and his authoritarian practices. According to official figures, more than 300 ...