In a new wave of persecution and arbitrary detentions against opponents, the Police at the service of the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo detained on the morning of Friday, November 25, a Rodrigo Navarreteuncle of the political prisoner Jaime Enrique Navarrete Blandonthey confirmed it to Article 66 family source.
Margine Blandón, mother of the prisoner of conscience, reported that the arrest occurred at approximately five in the morning at Rodrigo Navarrete’s house, located in Loma Linda, Managua.
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He denounced that the uniformed officers raided the house. “They left everything messy,” they reported. Other sources indicated that the police arrived asking for alleged firearms, however they found nothing, they only took some cell phones.
According to relatives, Navarrete, 56, is currently being held at Police Station III, located in Altagracia, Managua. The reasons for the arrest are unknown.
«What is happening is unfortunate, because the only thing he does —Rodrigo Navarrete— is visit my son —Jaime Navarrete—. This is one more pain because now my son has no one to visit him. The Police must understand that he has not done anything wrong, “Margine Blandón expressed through tears.
They demand his immediate release.
Another of the concerns of the relatives of the also retired from the Nicaraguan Army is that Rodrigo Navarrete has hearing and cardiovascular problems and suffers from high blood pressure.
“I demand his immediate release, because the only thing Rodrigo did was demand the freedom of my son Jaime -Navarrete-“. demanded the mother of the political prisoner.
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So far, Rodrigo Navarrete’s family has not been able to see him or verify his physical condition, they have only been able to bring him food. The Ortega Police notified them that until Monday, November 28, they will give details of their legal situation.
The opponent was seen in different marches and express pickets -when they could be carried out- demanding the freedom of his nephew Jaime Navarrete, kidnapped for the first time in 2018 and sentenced to 24 years in prison, allegedly for having murdered a paramilitary, however was benefited from the controversial Amnesty Law, coming out on June 10, 2019.
However, that freedom was one of the shortest against a political prisoner, because on July 24 of the same year he was again captured and charged for the alleged crimes of possession of psychotropic drugs, other controlled substances and illegal possession of weapons.
The Ortega judge Melvin Vargas Garcia, of the Seventh Criminal Trial District Court of Managua, sentenced him to three and a half years in prison, he is currently being held in the Jorge Navarro Penitentiary System, in Tipitapa, known as “La Modelo”.
