Among the Nicaraguans were 13 members of a Texas-based religious charity and Catholic laypeople.
Updated: 15 minutes agoLucia Garcia gestures from a bus after being released from a Nicaraguan jail and landing at the airport in Guatemala City, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024.
“No one should be put in jail for peacefully exercising their fundamental rights of free expression, association, and practicing their religion,” Sullivan said. Asked if there were some prisoners Nicaragua was willing to release, but who refused to leave, he declined to comment. Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo agreed to host the Nicaraguans while they apply for entry to the U.S.
The Texas-based religious organization Mountain Gateway confirmed the release of 13 of its people after nine months in jail. “The United States again calls on the government of Nicaragua to immediately cease the arbitrary arrest and detention of its citizens for merely exercising their fundamental freedoms,” Sullivan said.The announcement came just two days after Nicaragua’s National Assembly approved changes to the criminal code allowing the government to try Nicaraguans and foreigners in absentia.
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