The political prisoners Evelyn Pinto, Nidia Barbosa, Harry Chavez, Donald Alvarenga, Muammar Vado will complete one year of being imprisoned on November 5 in various penitentiary centers of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
The five political prisoners were detained by the regime’s Police on the eve of the presidential elections on November 6, 2021. These elections were classified by the international community as a “farce” due to the context of repression and hunting of opponents.
Donald Margarito Alvarenga Mendoza, Originally from Chichigalpa, he was the first Nicaraguan sentenced to 12 years in prison by Daniel Ortega’s justice for the alleged crimes of subversion, disobedience and rebellion at the level of conspiracy to affect national integrity.
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Evelyn Pinto, 69, was sentenced to eight years in prison in total: five for the crime of conspiracy to undermine national integrity and three for spreading false news, she will have to pay an additional 500 days fine and was disqualified from exercising charges in the same period. She is being held in the Comprehensive Women’s Penitentiary Establishment (EPIM), in Tipitapa.
Nidia Barbosa is imprisoned in the Granada National Penitentiary System. Her family recently denounced that the political prisoner was transferred to the Intensive Care Unit of the Japan Hospital due to the serious health situation of the opponent. She was sentenced to 11 years in prison for conspiracy to undermine national integrity and spread false news.
Harry Chávez, 62, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the alleged crimes of undermining national integrity and spreading news under the Sovereignty and Cybercrime laws. The opponent is detained in the Jorge Navarro National Penitentiary System (SPN) in Tipitapa.
Judge Ulisa Yaoska Tapia Silva, head of the Thirteenth Criminal Trial Court of Managua, sentenced Yaser Musmmar Vado on Thursday, February 10, to eight years in prison for the crime of conspiracy to undermine national integrity and five for cybercrimes, for a total of 13 years and a fine of 50 thousand cordobas.
The regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo keeps 219 political prisoners in prison in different prisons in the country. All are subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, according to what their families have denounced.
Pinto, Chávez and Barbosa are three elderly political prisoners who are sick and their relatives have denounced that they have not received the necessary medical care to attend to their ailments and that prison conditions have worsened and new illnesses have developed.
All the political prisoners were accused of violating Law 1055, the Sovereignty Law, and Law 1042, the Special Cybercrime Law; repressive laws approved by the Nicaraguan dictatorship to persecute and inhibit the opposition from the 2021 electoral process, designated by the international community as “illegitimate.”
