Nicaragua News Updates -- July 14, 2018

Globe and Mail/Reuters: Nicaragua students freed from church after violent night; one killed

Catholic bishops on Saturday secured the release of dozens of Nicaraguan student protesters trapped overnight inside in a church under a hail of gunfire from armed pro-government supporters, who killed at least one person inside, a human rights group said.

The students took refuge inside the Divine Mercy Catholic Church on Friday after gunmen loyal to President Daniel Ortega began shooting at them at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN) in Managua, prompting fresh criticism of the violent crackdown against opposition to his rule.

Paulo Abrao of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights said on Twitter that at least one youth had died in the church and three people were injured. The mother of a woman who spent the night in the church told Reuters that one student had died.

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Nicaragua News Updates -- July 14, 2018

Nicaragua unrest escalates -- Financial Times
Nicaragua crisis: One student killed as bloody church siege ends -- BBC
'This massacre must stop': Nicaraguan student rebels face militia assault -- The Guardian
Church says govt forces kill two on Nicaragua day of protest -- AFP
Five dead in latest Nicaraguan protest violence -- AFP
Nicaragua's Violent Protests Have Killed 241 So Far -- Telesur
Nicaragua unrest: Student protester livestreams attack -- Al Jazeera
Anti-Ortega protesters in Nicaragua launch general strike -- France 24
Nicaragua descends into 'state of terrorism' as president clings on -- Financial Times
Nicaragua bleeds, but the U.N. looks the other way -- Andrés Oppenheimer, Miami Herald
Notorious Nicaragua jail holds new generation of political prisoners -- Today Nicaragua