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Brooklyn Rivera, a longtime Miskito indigenous advocate who helped win limited autonomy for Nicaragua’s northeast coast, died after nearly three years in government detention. The state attributed his death to a bacterial infection following Covid-19, while human rights groups condemned the circumstances as part of a pattern of disappearances and arbitrary detention and urged accountability.
Indigenous Miskito leader Brooklyn Rivera has died at 73 after years in state custody in Nicaragua; the government says the death was due to a bacterial infection following COVID-19, but rights advocates and UN experts contest the circumstances, citing an extended period of enforced disappearance with no independent medical oversight since Rivera’s September 2023 arrest on terrorism charges. The case has sparked international condemnation, including US calls for accountability and the demand for the release of political prisoners, as Rivera’s activism and leadership of Indigenous rights groups were central to his opposition to the Ortega–Murillo government.