Felix Maradiaga, aspiring candidate of the opposition group National Blue and White Unity (UNAB), talks to reporters while leaving the Nicaragua Attorney General of the Republic office after being summoned by authorities, in Managua, Nicaragua June 8, 2021. REUTERS/Carlos Herrera
MANAGUA (Reuters) - Two former presidential candidates are among more than 180 political prisoners in Nicaragua undergoing "the worst kinds of human rights abuses," their lawyer said Wednesday.
One year after Juan Sebastian Chamorro and Felix Maradiaga were arrested ahead of Nicaragua's disputed 2021 election, neither has spoken to their families and both are being held in "horrific conditions," the men's international counsel said in a press conference Wednesday, the anniversary of their arrests.
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