The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has urged the Nicaraguan dictatorship “to urgently report” where it is holding the Bishop of Siuna, Mons. Isidoro del Carmen Mora Ortega was detained on 20 December.
“We urge the Government of Nicaragua to urgently report the whereabouts of Bishop Mora, a victim of forced disappearance for 16 days. Hiding this information and isolating him from his family and legal representatives puts his life and integrity at risk,” the UN office expressed yesterday, Friday, January 5, on its X account.
Likewise, the human rights organization recalled its statement of December 28, in which it condemned the forced detention of the prelate “and the new wave of arrests of religious people.”
“In addition to attacking their freedom, they would violate the right to religious freedom, a pillar of any democratic State,” the OHCHR stated at the time.
The arrest of the 63-year-old prelate occurred the day after he asked Monsignor Rolando Álvarez to pray at a Mass, the Bishop of Matagalpa who was kidnapped by the Sandinista regime in August 2022 and sentenced in February 2023 to 26 years in prison.