and the decision of bishop alvarez, which i faced before, is extremely brave.hop rolando alvarez is in prison because he was brave enough to stay back there and face 0rtega through his nonviolent resistance and through the force of his faith. but, i mean, it's easy for me to say this, sitting in a comfortable studio in london. but your decision, in a sense, do you feel that it in a way, represented a victory for 0rtega? he wanted you out of nicaragua. he's now stripped you of your citizenship, so you can't go back. in a sense, by agreeing to the deal which everybody watching this and listening will understand, but by agreeing to it, you've given 0rtega what he wanted, if anything were a victory... it's very hard for him to justify in front of his supporters that we are criminals who fought against nicaraguan sovereignty, and suddenly we're placed in a plane and sent to the united states and received by, frankly, as heroes, not only by the nicaraguan community, but by the international community as well. and on top of that, given our voices back to continue expl

is making to free bishop alvarez? as you know he got 26 years in prison what is ortega's war on the catholic church. the spokesperson, john kirby said i'm going to have to take the question to get back to you but i'm not tracking that particular case pretty hope those on a revolution of priorities. if you could speak to the issue of what ortega is doing, we need to look at every type of a pressure we can bring to bear. he had the foreign minister of iran to his country as you note to the capitol. i would hope you'd speak to that. thirdly on nigeria i peel again to to redesignate them as a cpc country. as you know the religious freedom has called your decision inexplicable. it's turning a blind eye because more christians have been killed in nigeria and the governors and pressure. it. and over 70000 churches have been destroyed. i've been to those churches. finally on trident when you meet and talk with your counterparts in the prc and the president himself, do you raise names in particular because it is very important

bishop alvarez and on my mind and the mind of the state department. nicaraguans expelled more than 200 political prisoners, the good news of course is they were failing, the bad news is they can't live in their own country. i met with the leaders of the democratic opposition who were freed at the state department and i believe me bishop out perez should be released so we will continue to work k on that. when it comes to nigeria i appreciate what you said. we are working day in and day out getting up for the rights of persecuted religious minorities around the world and i think it's important that it speaks for itself and speaks to why we epdo certain designations, and i'm happy to follow up with you off-line naand then on china absolutely.we name names, i name names and i've gone over repeatedly the names of people who were being in our judgment detained for political reasons and should be freed and at the same time there are of course american citizens who remain unjustly detained. we're working onthat as well . >> the chairman yields, secretary has