{"id":192858,"date":"2026-07-11T10:17:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/sin-categoria\/reed-brody-ortega-dismantles-rule-of-law-in-nicaragua-without-tanks\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T03:37:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T09:37:53","slug":"reed-brody-ortega-dismantles-rule-of-law-in-nicaragua-without-tanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/en\/entrevistas\/reed-brody-ortega-dismantles-rule-of-law-in-nicaragua-without-tanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Reed Brody: Ortega Dismantles Rule of Law in Nicaragua \u201cWithout Tanks\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hungarian-born lawyer Reed Brody, a member of the United Nations Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua, warns that the government led by Nicaraguan spouses and \u201cco-presidents\u201d Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo is demonstrating that it is possible to dismantle the rule of law \u201cwithout tanks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/nacion\/el-cazador-de-dictadores-reed-brody-inicio-en-nicaragua-su-trayectoria-mundial\/\">Known as the \u201cdictator hunter,\u201d<\/a> Brody argues in an interview with EFE that the Nicaraguan government is sending this message to the world through the mass removal of lawyers from the registry of Nicaragua\u2019s Supreme Court, without notification, disciplinary proceedings, or any official communication.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The message being sent from Managua, if this is allowed to become normalized, is that \u201cthe rule of law can be dismantled without tanks and without dramatic decrees: all it takes is a database,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA state that decides administratively <a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/en\/english\/arbitrary-suspension-of-thousands-of-lawyers-disrupts-trials-and-legal-transactions-in-nicaragua\/\">who may practice law and who may not<\/a> no longer has the rule of law; it has an instrument of punishment,\u201d the UN expert warns.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Brody, if the international community allows this measure to occur without consequences, it sends a signal to other governments with authoritarian ambitions that the legal profession, the citizen\u2019s last line of defense, can be erased with the press of a key.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat is why I believe bar associations around the world should speak out. Today it is their Nicaraguan colleagues who are being erased,\u201d the attorney says.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least 2,000 lawyers have reportedly been removed from the registry of Nicaragua\u2019s Supreme Court, according to affected attorneys and judicial sources who spoke to the Nicaraguan press. Neither the government nor the judiciary has offered an explanation. <\/p>\n\n<h2 id=\"h-reed-brody-alerta-ciudadanos-se-quedan-sin-defensa\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reed Brody Warns Citizens Are Left Without Legal Defense<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brody explains that a lawyer removed from the judicial registry can no longer file legal motions before the courts, represent clients, or serve as a notary public. Professionally speaking, that lawyer simply ceases to exist.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEvery lawyer removed means families are left with no one to file an appeal, no one to challenge an arbitrary detention, no one to sign a legal deed. When lawyers cannot practice, citizens are left without legal defense,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/en\/english\/reed-brody-no-country-in-the-world-weaponizes-statelessness-like-nicaragua\/\">The jurist compares this measure to other tactics of control employed by the Sandinista government,<\/a> including the mass closure of non-profit organizations, universities, independent media outlets, and churches.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNow it is the legal profession\u2019s turn. The pattern repeats itself: eliminating, without any due process, anyone who might stand between the government and the citizen,\u201d Brody says. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brody also argues that the measure is a direct violation of international law, specifically the UN Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers, which he helped draft more than 35 years ago. Those principles prohibit barring a lawyer from practicing without a fair proceeding before an independent body.<\/p>\n\n<h2 id=\"h-cancelacion-de-abogados-viola-el-derecho-internacional\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cancellation of Lawyers Violates International Law<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThese are not merely an isolated professional code. They are the concrete expression of rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights\u2014the equality of all before the law, the presumption of innocence, the right of every person to a fair hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, and the right of every accused person to all guarantees necessary for their defense\u2014as well as in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,\u201d Brody notes.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Covenant is a legally binding treaty that Nicaragua has ratified, and none of those rights can be effectively exercised without free and independent lawyers.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Principle 28 establishes that disciplinary proceedings against lawyers must be conducted before an impartial committee of the legal profession, an independent body established by law, or a court, with the possibility of independent judicial review.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn Nicaragua, none of those safeguards were respected. (\u2026) Therefore, the violation is not only of the Basic Principles. By stripping the system of defense attorneys, the government also empties the guarantees contained in the Universal Declaration and the Covenant of their substance. That is precisely what those instruments were written to prevent,\u201d the expert explains.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/nacion\/reed-brody-el-cazador-de-dictadores-investigara-los-crimenes-de-ortega-y-murillo\/\">Brody says that the UN Group of Experts <\/a>has found that Nicaragua does not meet even the minimum reasonable standard of judicial independence. When that is combined with \u201ca legal profession that has been purged or intimidated, the result is defenselessness: the citizen facing the state without an intermediary, without a shield.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Therefore, the expert believes that the remaining avenues are largely international: documenting the violations, using international protection mechanisms, and urging third countries to act through targeted sanctions, universal jurisdiction, and proceedings before the International Court of Justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hungarian-born lawyer Reed Brody, a member of the United Nations Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua, warns that the government led by Nicaraguan spouses and \u201cco-presidents\u201d Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo is demonstrating that it is possible to dismantle the rule of law \u201cwithout tanks.\u201d Known as the \u201cdictator hunter,\u201d Brody argues in an 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