Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1935 of 13 October 2022 implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1716 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Nicaragua

• CELEX: Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1935
• Articles: 3

Article 1

Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2019/1716 is amended as set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the date following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .

Schedules & Appendices

ANNEX

ANNEX

In Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2019/1716, under the heading ‘A. Natural persons referred to in Article 2’, entries 3 and 19 are replaced by the following:

Name

Identifying information

Reasons

Date of listing

‘3.

Francisco Javier DÍAZ MADRIZ

Date of birth: 3 August 1961

Gender: male

General Director of the Nicaraguan National Police (NNP) since 23 August 2018 and former Deputy General Director of NNP. Responsible for serious human rights violations and for the repression of civil society and democratic opposition in Nicaragua, including by leading police forces committing violence against civilians, including excessive use of force, arbitrary arrests and detentions and torture. In 2021, he carried out the investigations to set up cases against the opposition leaders arrested before the elections.

4.5.2020

19.

Lumberto Ignacio CAMPBELL HOOKER

Member of the Supreme Electoral Council, acting President of the Supreme Electoral Council in 2018

Date of birth: 3.12.1949

Place of birth: Raas, Nicaragua

Gender: male

Nationality: Nicaraguan

Passport number: A00001109 (Nicaragua)

ID number: 6010302490003J

Lumberto Ignacio Campbell Hooker has been since 2014 a member of the Supreme Electoral Council (SEC) – a body responsible for the preparation, holding and certification of the general elections of 7 November 2021 which, by their lack of transparency, true opposition and democratic debate, undermined democratic institutions and processes. The SEC deprived the opposition of the opportunity to stand for free elections and ensured the organisation of polls in non-democratic conditions. His mandate as member of the SEC was renewed by the General Assembly in May 2021.

He spoke to the media during the 7 November 2021 elections, justifying and praising their organisation.

He is therefore responsible for the repression of democratic opposition and for undermining democracy and the rule of law in Nicaragua.

10.1.2022’