UN launches an international investigation in Nicaragua over concerns of deteriorating human rights situation in the Central American country
The United Nations has launched an international investigation into human rights violations in Nicaragua, establishing a group of rights experts to carry out the probe.
China, Russia and Cuba were among seven members to oppose the resolution while 20 others abstained, according to the official count among the rights council's 47 member states. Last week the Nicaraguan ambassador to the Organisation of American States publicly lashed out at his country's president, describing Daniel Ortega's rule as a "dictatorship".Ortega, the 76-year-old former leftist guerrilla, won a fourth successive election last year after all his challengers were jailed, in a vote widely dismissed as a farce.