The Legal Defense Unit (UDJ) pointed out that the “informative hearing” organized by the Daniel Ortega regime to show 20 political prisoners in the Managua courts has no legal basis “So the appearance in it is illegal, arbitrary, violates the principle of legality and the minimum guarantees of due process.”
“The repeated arbitrariness and violations of due process by the Justice System in all its instances, on this occasion through the holding of a supposed “informative hearing” that lacks a legal basis to support its holding, since it is not stipulated in our criminal procedural legal system of Nicaragua,” denounced the organism in a release.
This Wednesday, for the second consecutive day, the Ortega dictatorship released images of another ten political prisoners. On this occasion they presented the leaders of Unamos Ana Margarita Vijil, Suyen Barahona Y Dora Maria Tellez; to the general manager of La Prensa, John Lawrence Holman; to the vice president of the Superior Council of Private Enterprise, Alvaro Vargas; to the former CEO of Banpro, Luis Rivas Anduray; the candidate for the Presidency, Felix Maradiaga; to the activist Tamara Davilato the lawyer Roger Reyes and the opponent Irving Larios.
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Also, on Tuesday the Ortega Police showed the student leaders Max Sherry Y Lesther German; to the candidates for the Presidency Juan Sebastian Chamorro, Medardo Mairena Y Miguel Mora-Barberena; to the former workers of the extinct Violeta Barrios de Chamorro Foundation Walter Gomez, Marcos Fletes Y Pedro Vazquez; to the president of Cosep, Michael Healey and the expert on electoral issues Jose Antonio Peraza.
The UDJ assured that with this action the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship “reveals the repeated violations of the rights of political prisoners, the right to a defense and to defend rights, by being held without the participation of their defense attorneys.”
«The cases of most of the people presented yesterday (Tuesday) and today (Wednesday) in said hearings, already have appeals filed, so the Court of Appeals lacked jurisdiction to carry out said hearings. hearing, given the case, should have, at the corresponding procedural moment, convened an appeal hearing and/or a hearing to read the appeal sentence, which was requested by the defenses but this was omitted and even denied by the Court,” the Court underlined. organization.
Likewise, he reminded the judicial and police authorities, “that no position grants the person who exercises it more functions than those attributions granted by the constitution and the laws.”
“The Court of Appeals exceeds its functions with that of other powers of the State, by legislating by way of fact, by applying a procedure that does not exist in the law (art. 10 Penal Code),” he added.
The Legal Defense Unit qualified as a “media act, publicity and repudiation” the images disclosed of the opponents by the regime’s official media.
He demanded that the Ortega-Murillo administration respect the guarantees of due process, the right to defense and the protection of the human dignity of political prisoners.
“We reiterate that the authorities must resolve on medical legal care and medico-legal assessments that have been repeatedly requestedas well as the income of food, reading material, proper scheduling of family visits, the reestablishment of mother, father, daughters and sons relationships, conjugal visits to which they are entitled according to the legislation, instead of inventing legal figures oriented towards exposure and disrespect for the human dignity of those whom the State should protect,” he concluded.
