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Spain offers citizenship to freed Nicaraguan political prisoners

Nicaraguan political prisoners arrive in Washington, DC on Thursday following their release from detention [Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo]

Spanish officials say they have offered citizenship to more than 200 Nicaraguan political prisoners released earlier this week, after legislators aligned with Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega moved to strip them of their legal status as citizens.

Spanish foreign minister Jose Manuel Albares announced the decision on Friday to the news outlet Servimedia, one day after 222 political prisoners were freed by Nicaragua and sent to the United States.

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