Sociologist and opponent Irving Larios has been detained for 480 days in the cells of the Judicial Assistance Directorate (DAJ), known as “El Nuevo Chipote”, a center where he is subjected to various tortures, according to reports from human rights organizations and relatives of political prisoners. Of that more than a year in prison, he has been on a hunger strike for 13 days demanding specialized medical care and better nutrition.
On August 31, the dictatorship presented the political prisoner for the first time before its official media, who was transferred to the Managua courts. The member of the Articulation of Social Movements (AMS) was exhibited with his emaciated face. The photographs show the consequences that a year of confinement has left on the opponent.
Given this situation, the relatives of Irving Larios pointed out that the Ortega-Murillo regime is trying to “destroy” the political prisoner “for defending social justice, freedom and democracy” in the country; and despite that, the opponent showed “dignity even with his hands handcuffed, that dignity that will move mountains to free you and all political prisoners.”
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Irving Larios was arrested at his home on September 20, 2021 by the Regime Police. The dictatorship accused him of violating Law 1042, the Special Cybercrime Law, the same legal tool that he used to prosecute more than 40 opposition leaders who have been imprisoned since the end of May of last year in the electoral context.
Larios is an economist, sociologist and president of the Institute for Research and Social Management (INGES). This entity facilitates and accompanies processes of citizen participation, gender equity, generational change and the coordination of actions for development.
On March 9, the judge of the Tenth Criminal Trial District, Nancy Aguirre Gudiel, sentenced the political prisoner Irving Larios to 13 years in prison and disqualification from holding public office. In addition to the payment of 800 days of fines, about 160 thousand cordobas. The court was sanctioned by the United States on July 15 for “being involved in acts of corruption and attacks on democracy” in the Central American nation. Aguirre Gudiel was part of the six judges who conducted trials in the DAJ against the political prisoners detained in the electoral context.
