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The United States announces that it has secured the release of 135 political prisoners in Nicaragua, who were jailed by the government of President Daniel Ortega.
2024-09-5

Nicaraguan bishop Rolando José Álvarez Lagos, imprisoned in February for refusing exile to the United States with 222 political prisoners, is temporarily released but immediately rearrested, amidst conflicting reports and tensions between the Nicaraguan government and the Holy See.
2023-07-3

Fifteen people are killed and 47 others are injured after a bus crash in Esteli, Nicaragua.
2022-07-28

Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok says that he will not step down despite being under house arrest following the military coup.
2021-10-31

Nicaraguan opposition figure Cristiana Chamorro Barrios is placed under house arrest in Managua as the government accuses her of money laundering.
2021-06-2

Colombian businessman Alex Saab, an affiliate of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro who is charged in the United States for alleged money laundering, is placed under house arrest in Cape Verde.
2021-01-26

Prominent opposition figure Leopoldo López leaves the Spanish embassy in Caracas and flees to Spain via Colombia, according to his own party, which did not elaborate how he escaped from Venezuela. López had been at the embassy for over a year to avoid house arrest.
2020-10-24

Burma frees dozens of political prisoners as part of the country's ongoing effort at political reform.
2013-07-23

Former Uruguayan dictator Juan María Bordaberry dies under house arrest for murders committed during his time in power.
2011-07-17

Peruvian AIDESEP indigenous leader Alberto Pizango, detained on Wednesday as he returned from almost a year in exile in Nicaragua and charged with objecting to oil digging in the rainforest, is released on bail.
2010-05-28