# Nicaragua flies 222 prisoners to the United States and strips nationality Date: 2023 ## The fact On 9 February 2023 the Nicaraguan government flew 222 prisoners to the United States, stripped nationality, and seized property. Reuters recorded the same-day expulsion. Bishop Rolando Álvarez refused the plane. GHREN later documented 452 court-ordered nationality deprivations since February 2023. Quote GHREN. ## Context Law 1145 traitor-to-the-homeland neighbourhood sat as parent. Álvarez’s 10 February sentence is a child. Dora María Téllez was among those flown. She remains unresolved. 10 February Álvarez sentence; 14 January 2024 Vatican expulsion. Store the 222-flight as the denationalisation instrument. Keep Nicaragua flies 222 prisoners to the United States and strips nationality on 2023-02-09 separate from neighbouring 7 November 2021 CSE night, 9 February 2023 222-flight, 10 February 2023 Álvarez sentence, 14 January 2024 Vatican expulsion, and 30 January 2025 co-presidency reform. The co-president of Nicaragua is head of state and commander-in-chief under the 2025 text. He can propose constitutional reforms and order expulsions. He does not sit as a CSE teller, a Managua trial judge, or a Vatican guest-master. Murillo is named as an unresolved person candidate. ## Evidence and sources National Assembly of Nicaragua carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is [civic space](/drivers/civic-space) and family autocracy: a completed expulsion dressed as a release. ## What is established and what is not Established: 222 prisoners were flown to the US on 9 February 2023 and stripped of nationality; GHREN later counted 452 deprivations from that cluster onward. Not established: A unique later GHREN increment as Contribution.size, or that the flight was a completed amnesty. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Courts declared traitors. The US received the plane. Álvarez refused and was sentenced the next day.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Nicaragua flies 222 prisoners to the United States and strips nationality, not a later speech about Nicaragua flies 222 prisoners to the United States and strips nationality. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Nicaragua flies 222 prisoners to the United States and strips nationality on 2023-02-09 is not a licence to treat every later National Assembly of Nicaragua communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Nicaragua flies 222 prisoners to the United States and strips nationality into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to The presidency ordered. Courts declared traitors. The US received the plane. Álvarez refused and was sentenced the next day. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Daniel Ortega: https://factrail.ai/people/daniel-ortega ## Drivers - Ortega–Murillo family autocracy: https://factrail.ai/drivers/ortega-family-autocracy - Civic Space: https://factrail.ai/drivers/civic-space ## Sources - https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/grhe-nicaragua/2025-09-23-ghren-transnational-violations-en.pdf - https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/nicaragua-sends-222-political-prisoners-united-states-2023-02-09/ - https://www.asamblea.gob.ni/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ni-ortega-222-2023