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Nicaraguans living in exile in Costa Rica participate in a rally to demand the release of Bishop Rolando Alvarez, who refused to board a US-bound plane with more than 200 released prisoners expelled from Nicaragua in early February 2023, and other dissidents who remain in jail, at the Democracy square in San Jose, on March 5, 2023. - A Nicaraguan court on February 10 sentenced Alvarez to 26 years in jail, a day after he refused to board a US-bound plane carrying 222 political prisoners into exile. The court also stripped the bishop of his Nicaraguan citizenship and fined him $1,600. More than 300 dissidents, expelled in the recent move or living in exile, were also stripped of their citizenship. (Photo by Ezequiel BECERRA / AFP) (Photo by EZEQUIEL BECERRA/AFP via Getty Images)