foreign funding, leading to an enlargement of victims of such repression, and which will further aggravate the already unsustainable level human rights violations in Nicaragua. 2. Urges Nicaragua’s government to stop criminalizing independent voices and to halt any attempt to control and restrict the work of the political opposition, news media, journalists and civil society, including human rights organizations; calls for full cooperation with. and the return of, international and multilateral human rights bodies to Nicaragua, including the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the Special Monitoring Mechanism on Nicaragua (MESENI), and the OAS International Group of Independent Experts (GIEI). 3. Stresses that any limitation on the enjoyment of the rights to freedom of opinion and expression, both online and offline, as well as freedom of peaceful assembly and association, and the right to defend human rights, are all incompatible with Nicaragua’s Constitution and with its obligations under international human rights agreements. 4. Rejects the improper use of institutions and laws by the Nicaraguan regime with the intention of criminalizing political opponents and civil society organisations based on political and other illicit purposes; in this respect it calls on the government of Nicaragua to abide in their entirety by the commitments made in the March 2019 agreements with the opposition group Civic Alliance, and to open up to dialogue aimed at reaching a democratic, peaceful, and negotiated solution to the political crisis in Nicaragua. 5. Condemns the repression of activists, political opposition, journalists, and human rights defenders; calls for the immediate release of all political prisoners and those arbitrarily detained, and for all charges against them to be dropped, while respecting fully their fundamental legal safeguards. 6. Expresses its dire concern over recent reports by Nicaraguan organizations that authorities have ordered the National Police to carry out human rights violations and are being assisted in their repression by pro-government civilian groups and the ruling party’s territorial organizations, some of them armed and organised as a paramilitary groups; calls for the disarmament by the government of these paramilitary groups and calls for those responsible for violations of human rights and for undermining democracy and the rule of law to be held accountable, and for the review of the controversial amnesty law which could preclude the prosecution of those responsible for grave violations of human rights. 7. Calls on the government of Nicaragua to come to an agreement with the opposition groups, including the National Coalition, on electoral and institutional reforms necessary to guarantee credible, inclusive, transparent elections, currently scheduled for November 2021, all in accordance to international standards, by also implementing the recommendations of the 2011 EU Electoral Observation Mission, and of the Organization of American States. To that end, such elections must be observed by duly accredited national and internationals observers. 8. In view of continued grave abuses and violations of human rights, if the proposed “Foreign Agents Law”, the “Special Law of Cyber Crime”, and the “Law Against Hate