Imprisoned Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Álvarez appears unexpectedly on Nicaraguan television March 24, 2023, more than six weeks after refusing to head into exile and being sentenced to 26 years behind bars. Photo: OSV News screenshot/Canal 4 Nicaragua A Christian legal group has filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on behalf of Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Álvarez, who is serving a prison sentence under the regime of President Daniel Ortega for criticising the dictatorship’s human rights violations. Bishop Álvarez, the bishop of Matagalpa, began serving a 26-year, four-month prison…
