The Biden administration is praising Nicaragua’s release of 222 political prisoners as a “positive and welcome” step that could portend a return of democracy to the impoverished Central American country.
A senior administration official told The Independent on Thursday that the Nicaraguan government “decided unilaterally to release 222 individuals whom they had imprisoned,” some of whom “have spent years in prison, many of them for exercising their fundamental freedoms, in awful conditions and with no access to due process”.
