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Solidarity group slams Amnesty for ‘highly biased’ coverage of Nicaragua

THE Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign Action Group (NSCAG) has criticised Amnesty International for its “highly biased” coverage and reporting of the political crisis in Central American country.

In its report published today entitled Dismissing the Truth, the NSCAG called Amnesty’s October 2018 report Instilling Terror: From Lethal Force to Persecution “unbalanced” and said the NGO is “completely failing to explain the context for or causes of the recent violence in Nicaragua.”

The report challenges Amnesty’s conclusion that the country’s Sandinista government instigated “a strategy of indiscriminate repression with intent to kill not only in order to completely smash the protests, but also to punish those who participated in them.” 

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