Dictatorships hate even the most altruistic of their opponents:
The group had been stripped of its legal status on 28 June by the Nicaraguan parliament, where members of President Ortega 's Sandinista party are in the majority.
The nuns had been working with the poor in Nicaragua since 1988 and ran a children's nursery, a home for abused and abandoned girls and a nursing home.
A government department which oversees non-governmental organisations accused it of "not meeting its obligations" to declare the provenance of its funds.
More than 200 organisations have been shut down in Nicaragua since 2018 for allegedly breaching strict new laws about funding.
Among those closed down is the renowned Nicaraguan Academy of Language as well as a medical charity providing surgeries for children with cleft palates.
Tension between the government of Daniel Ortega and the Catholic Church has been high ever since clergy sheltered students protesting against President Ortega during a wave of anti-government protests in 2018.
In 2019, the outspoken auxiliary bishop of Managua, Silvio Báez, left the country after receiving several death threats.
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