The number of deaths in the protests in Nicaragua is 285

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The protests in Nicaragua against the government of Daniel Ortega began with failed social security reforms and became a demand for the resignation of the president.

At least 285 people have died, 2,500 have been injured, 156 disappeared and 46 have suffered permanent injuries in Nicaragua "due to the repression of the Government of Daniel Ortega," according to a report released today by the Nicaraguan Association for Human Rights (ANPDH).

According to the document, of more than 50 pages, among those killed during the socio-political crisis that Nicaragua is living since last April, there are twenty minors, twenty police agents and a journalist.

Deaths were recorded in the departments of Managua (145), Masaya (35), León (20), the North Caribbean Autonomous Region (20), Estelí Matagalpa (15), Estelí (13), Chinandega (8), Jinotega (8), Carazo (5), Boaco (4), Chontales (3), Río San Juan (3), Granada (2), Madriz (2), Rivas (1) and the Southern Caribbean Autonomous Region (1). The NGO points out that the Ortega government has used its "combined forces that cover their faces with ski masks" to carry out "illicit and unpunished acts", such as "tortures, atrocious selective assassinations, breaking and entering without a warrant and damages to the property".

Police, riot police, paramilitaries and official groups of shock "make use of war weapon not justified, with snipers, against citizens who protest civically and peacefully," the president of the ANPDH, Álvaro Leiva, told reporters.

The preliminary report of the association indicates that the most "bloody" day was on April 20, when 23 people were executed in an "extrajudicial" manner, while 20 died on May 30 in a march for Mother's Day in Nicaragua and 59 lost their lives in the same way between June 10 and 16.