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White House says it secured the released of 135 political prisoners in Nicaragua, including members of a Texas missionary group

Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega (Credit: Photo by: Reuters/Oswaldo Rivas)

The White House announced on Thursday it has "secured the release of 135 unjustly detained political prisoners in Nicaragua, on humanitarian grounds." The group includes 13 members of a Texas-based missionary organization Mountain Gateway.

"Catholic laypeople, students and others who Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo consider a threat to their authoritarian rule," are among the rest of the released, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan added in a statement.

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