After 48 hours of arbitrary detention, the court at the service of the Daniel Ortega regime presented an accusation against the sociologist Oscar Rene Vargas, as read in the Office of Reception and Distribution of Causes and Writs (ORDICE).
The four-page complaint against the political scientist was filed by the Ortega prosecutor Yubelca del Carmen Perez Alvarado, before the Thirteenth Criminal District Court of Audiencia, circumscription, Managua, with case number 025318-ORM4-2022-PN, however the motives or crimes that are being charged are not detailed.
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Faced with this action by the Nicaraguan dictatorship, the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh) warned that Ortega’s justice is “committing a crime”, stating that Vargas’ life depends on a pacemaker and without specialized medical assistance he can to collapse.
“The doctor is innocent, or is it a crime to give an opinion and analyze the political, social and economic crisis that the same regime has provoked?”
At the same time, Cenidh reported that a political scientist is being held in the Directorate of Judicial Assistance (DAJ) known as “El Nuevo Chipote” in Managua. Only his relatives and his defense attorney have been able to pass him water.
“We hold the ORMU regime responsible for what may happen to him (…) His life is at risk. We demand his immediate release,” Cenidh demanded.
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Vargas, 77, was arrested on November 22, “with luxury of violence and aggressiveness,” according to Cenidh, while he was at his sister’s house at the time of her “kidnapping.”
The arrest against the critic of the Ortega y Murillo dictatorship occurred after his return from Costa Rica, the country where he was granted asylum, after the constant threats against him.
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. The opponent joins the list of political prisoners in Nicaragua.
