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HRW: Nicaraguan Forces Committed Widespread Abuses in Crackdown

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   Nicaraguan pro-government forces are responsible for a wide range of
   abuses against protesters, according to Human Rights Watch.

   In a report released Wednesday, the rights group alleges the Nicaraguan
   National Police, alongside other pro-government forces, killed 300
   people and injured 2,000 in a crackdown following protests in May 2018.

   The report says detained protesters were subject to "electric shocks,
   severe beatings, fingernail removal, asphyxiation, and rape."
   Furthermore, the report alleges that many detainees were denied medical
   care, with government forces retaliating against doctors who sought to
   provide care.

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