Nicaragua is holding a presidential election today after months of political crackdown from the Ortega regime

Nicaraguans are voting today in the nation's elections, as the worldwide group raises considerations over the legitimacy of the course of, following the arrests of dozens of opposition leaders.

Many Nicaraguans have raised doubts over whether or not they'd vote in the election resulting from total mistrust of their establishments.

Some background: Ortega's authorities cracked down onerous on opposition figures throughout the anti-government protests of 2018. At least 322 individuals had been killed then, with hundreds injured and tons of detained. At the time, UN human rights consultants accused the authorities of human rights violations in opposition to protesters. Ortega stated the UN report was "nothing more than an instrument of the policy of death, of the policy of terror, of the policy of lying, of the policy of infamy."

The authorities of long-time President Daniel Ortega has detained dozens of individuals since late May, together with seven presidential candidates. Opposition leaders, scholar leaders, businessmen and activists have additionally been focused.

Many of the dozens detained since May have been charged with obscure, so-called "national security" violations, which human rights teams say is a clear signal that Ortega is doing his finest to get rid of dissent and crush any competitors forward of the elections, when he hopes to safe his fourth consecutive time period as president.