Police in Nicaragua have arrested two more Catholic priests after they prayed in public for a bishop jailed for life when he refused to go into exile.
The arrests of Fr Carlos Aviles and Fr Hector Treminio raise the numbers of priests arrested by the regime of President Daniel Ortega to six in the past week alone. A total of nine priests are said to be in jail, accusing of crimes against the state.
According to Reuters news agency, the pair were detained after they offered prayers for Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa who in February was jailed for 26 years after he refused to board a plane which would take him to exile in the United States with 222 other political prisoners.
