At least 22 Nicaraguan dissidents of the Ortega-Murillo regime were abducted by the National Police between the night of Thursday, August 14, and Friday, August 15, 2025, according to preliminary information from sources close to the detainees\u2019 families and from the Blue and White Monitoring organization.<\/p>\n\n
The arbitrary arrests occurred mainly in the departments of Carazo and Masaya, but there are also reports of police abductions in Granada and Rivas.<\/p>\n\n
According to witnesses of the raids, the operations and searches\u2014carried out without judicial warrants\u2014were \u201cviolent,\u201d with police \u201cdestroying\u201d property, \u201cstealing belongings,\u201d and using police dogs.<\/p>\n\n
Among those detained are former political prisoners, outspoken regime critics, returned exiles, artists, businesspeople, and community leaders.<\/p>\n\n
In Carazo, on August 15, painter Marvin Campos and his son, engineer Marvin Campos Aburto, were detained. The latter had been in exile and had recently returned to Nicaragua. <\/p>\n\n
Also arrested were Renato Ortiz and his father, Joaqu\u00edn Ortiz, as well as Chester Cortes and Maria Jose Rojas. Rojas is the daughter of opposition member Rodolfo Rojas Cordero<\/a>, who was murdered in Honduras in 2022. <\/p>\n\n On the night of August 14, Mario Rodr\u00edguez and Alder Lopez Luna were detained; Lopez had recently returned from Honduras in an attempt to \u201cnormalize\u201d his life in Nicaragua, according to the sources.<\/p>\n\n