{"id":260540,"date":"2021-08-02T14:32:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T14:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/02\/eu-sanctions-nicaragua-first-lady-vice-president"},"modified":"2021-08-02T14:32:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T14:32:21","slug":"eu-sanctions-nicaraguas-first-lady-and-vice-president-over-human-rights-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/08\/02\/eu-sanctions-nicaraguas-first-lady-and-vice-president-over-human-rights-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"EU sanctions Nicaragua\u2019s first lady and vice-president over human rights violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven other senior officials accused of serious human rights violations or undermining democracy<\/p><p>The European Union has slapped sanctions on Nicaragua\u2019s first lady and Vice-President Rosario Murillo and seven other senior officials accused of serious human rights violations or undermining democracy, amid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jun\/15\/nicaragua-critics-of-president-pre-election-crackdown-ortega\">a sweeping crackdown on opposition politicians<\/a> in the Central American country.<\/p><p>EU headquarters said in a statement that the sanctions, which include asset freezes and bans on travel in Europe, \u201care targeted at individuals and are designed in this way not to harm the Nicaraguan population or the Nicaraguan economy\u201d.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jun\/15\/nicaragua-critics-of-president-pre-election-crackdown-ortega\">Nicaragua rounds up president\u2019s critics in sweeping pre-election crackdown<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/02\/eu-sanctions-nicaragua-first-lady-vice-president\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/02\/eu-sanctions-nicaragua-first-lady-vice-president\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven other senior officials accused of serious human rights violations or undermining democracyThe European Union has slapped sanctions on Nicaragua\u2019s first lady and Vice-President Rosario Murillo and seven other senior officials accused of serious hu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7350,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1280,1011,6,1019,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7350"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260541,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260540\/revisions\/260541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}