The Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh) denounced that the Police at the service of the dictatorship arrested this Tuesday, November 22, “with luxury of violence and aggressiveness” the Nicaraguan sociologist and economist Oscar Rene Vargaswho was at his sister’s house at the time of her “kidnapping.”
“With a luxury of violence and aggressiveness, the entire family was kidnapped at the home of his sister, the sociologist Óscar René Vargas, an elderly person with physical ailments and who needs specialized care,” the agency said in its Twitter account. Twitter.
Vargas, 77, has heart problems and a pacemaker was placed just seven months ago. The critic of the dictatorship was captured after returning from his exile in Costa Rica.
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Faced with the arbitrary detention of the also political analyst, the lawyer Yonarqui Martínez reminded the Nicaraguan authorities “that the elderly have the right to be treated in a special way because of their condition, the deprivation of liberty should not be applied without first seeing alternative measures to this one”.
In addition, the son of the now political prisoner, René Vargas Zamora, blamed “the regime for any discomfort that happens” to his father.
Óscar René Vargas only gave interviews by telephone and without exposing himself to the cameras as a security measure to avoid being found by the Ortega-Murillo regime.
Recently, the political analyst had taken refuge in Costa Rica after becoming an opponent of Ortega and is now Ortega’s new hostage.
Cenidh demanded that the Ortega dictatorship release Vargas immediately. “We hold the Ortega Murillo regime responsible for his safety and his life,” he stressed.
