Published On 10 Jul 202610 Jul 2026Nicaragua’s government has stripped masses of lawyers of their licences to practise, in what critics see as yet another attack on the country’s critics.On Friday, a United Nations expert called the government’s actions a “purge of the legal profession”, aimed at eroding the country’s final shreds of democratic checks and balances.Nicaragua’s husband-wife co-presidents, Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, have led a government that has increasingly carried out an all-out crackdown on dissent.That effort intensified after mass social protests in 2018 that the government violently repressed.Since then, the government has imprisoned adversaries, religious leaders, journalists…