MANAGUA (Reuters) - A European Parliament delegation on Saturday urged Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega to release political prisoners, permit the return of banned human rights groups and to restart dialogue with the opposition to end a months-long political crisis.
The delegation led by European Member of Parliament Ramon Jauregui, a Socialist from Spain who fought alongside Ortega's Sandinistas to overthrow dictator Anastasio Somoza in 1979, told a news conference it would ask the European Parliament to issue a new resolution on the crisis.
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