‘This is huge’: Nicaragua frees 222 political prisoners and flies them to US
by Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent and Chris from World news | The Guardian on (#68PGZ)
Daughter of former foreign minister Francisco Aguirre-Sacasa says he is among detainees released, adding: Everybody is on the plane'
More than 200 prisoners jailed by Nicaragua's authoritarian regime during a ferocious two-year political crackdown have been freed and flown to the United States.
This is huge," Georgiana Aguirre-Sacasa, the daughter of one of the prisoners - the elderly former foreign minister Francisco Aguirre-Sacasa - said on Thursday morning as she digested the news of her father's release.
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