The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (I/A Court HR) declared the Nicaraguan regime “permanent contempt” for having neglected the constant calls for respect for human rights and freedom for political prisoners. The organization reiterates the measures applied to 46 political prisoners.
“It constitutes an act of permanent contempt of the binding nature of the decisions issued by this Court, contrary to the international principle of complying with its conventional obligations in good faith and a breach of the duty to inform the Court, which puts them in a situation of absolute and increases the situation of risk in which the beneficiaries find themselves,” says the document of the international court.
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They emphasize that the Court will send Nicaragua’s contempt for its decisions for “the consideration of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States. The Tribunal instructed the President of the Court to submit a report to the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States on the situation of permanent contempt and absolute lack of protection in which the beneficiaries of the provisional measures find themselves,” the brief states.
The Court also reminded the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega of the provisional measures delivered in 2021 in favor of the political prisoners Juan Sebastián Chamorro García, José Adán Aguerri Chamorro, Félix Alejandro Maradiaga Blandón, Violeta Mercedes Granera Padilla, Tamara Dávila, Lesther Lenín Alemán and Freddy Navas Lopez. Demand that they be released “immediately.”
“In light of the foregoing, the Court considers that the statement of non-acceptance and rejection by the State of the Provisional Measures adopted by the Court, as well as the repeated non-compliance with the orders contained in the Resolutions of June 24, September 9, , November 4 and 22, 2021 and May 25 and October 4, 2022 and, in particular, the prolongation of the detention of the beneficiaries of the provisional measures, keeps the beneficiaries in a state of absolute vulnerability and implies, necessarily, a permanent disrespect that puts the beneficiaries at serious risk of suffering irreparable damage to their rights to life, integrity, health, and food,” the international organization says.
In addition, they resolve that “the detention of the beneficiaries of the provisional measures ordered by that Court, as well as the criminal proceedings followed against all of them, show a process of harassment and criminalization of the people who identify themselves as being in opposition to the current government of Nicaragua”.
Nicaragua is experiencing a serious political crisis that erupted with social protests in April 2018, a situation that was dealt with by armed Sandinista police and paramilitaries and left a toll of 355 dead, more than 2,000 injured, 1,600 detained and at least 100,000 exiled, in mostly refugees in Costa Rica.
