; and child labor. . (5) On February 22, 2019, Michelle Bachelet, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said, I am deeply concerned about the apparent lack of due process and increasing criminalization of dissent in Nicaragua. The arrest and jailing of opposition leaders, possibly in some cases as a reprisal for cooperating with the UN, clearly hinders the creation of an environment conducive to holding a genuine and inclusive dialogue—which the Government says it wants. … I also call on the authorities to release all those deprived of their liberty in connection with their intrinsic right to peaceful protest and dissent, and to ensure people who cooperate with the UN and other human rights organizations do not face reprisals. It is a fundamental tenet of democracy that people from all parts of society should be able to engage freely in debate about the future of their country, without fear of arrest or intimidation. . (6) On April 4, 2019, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States condemned the human rights abuses perpetrated by the Ortega regime, stating that, [t]he acts of repression in question include illegal arbitrary arrests, the prohibition of all forms of social demonstration of protest, the refusal to re-establish the legal status of civil society organizations, and the increasing repression of people who are being deprived of their liberty. The IACHR once more calls for repression in the country to cease and for public liberties to be restored. . (7) International human rights groups such as Human Rights Watch, the Committee to Protect Journalists, and Reporters Without Borders have highlighted the Ortega regime’s efforts to silence independent media. For example, offices of Radio Dario were burned down after the protests began in April 2018, Nicaragua’s most widely read newspaper La Prensa’s printing materials were confiscated in January 2019, and numerous journalists were arrested and imprisoned since the protests began, while death threats and other