The magistrates of the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) confirmed the conviction against the opposition member Ana Margarita Vijil. The sanctioned judge Karen Vanessa Chavarría Morales, of the Ninth Criminal Court of Managua, was in charge of determining the sentence of 10 years in prison for the alleged crime of “conspiracy to undermine national integrity.”
Last May, the magistrates of the Managua Court of Appeals (TAM) rejected the appeal filed by the defense of the political prisoner; later the lawyer raised the case to cassation, the last step in local justice in Nicaragua.
The Ortega court sentenced the leader of the Renewing Democratic Union (Unamos) using Law 1055, Law of Sovereignty; regulations used by the Nicaraguan regime to brand opponents as “traitors of the homeland”.
Related news: Ana Margarita Vijil, with her head held high, before “her executioners” and official media
Ana Margarita Vijil faced a marathon trial, which began on Wednesday, February 2, at eight in the morning and ended at night. The hearing was held at the Judicial Assistance Directorate (DAJ), known as “El Nuevo Chipote” in Managua, where the regime’s hostage has been held captive since June 13, 2021, 19 months and one day ago.
Her relatives have denounced that Vijil “is getting thinner” in isolation and under psychological torture, but they assure that despite this “far from intimidating or embittering her, they are making her a better person every day.”
Ana Margarita Vijil It was presented on August 31 in the courts of Managua, before the Ortega magistrate Octavio Ernesto Rothschuh. The former president of the Unión Democrática Renovadora (Unamos) was exhibited before the government propaganda media where her physical deterioration and extreme thinness were confirmed.
Despite the harassment by the official media, the political royal kept her gaze steady, smiling at the “executioners” of Ortega. He then signed the minutes of the “hearing” invented by the Judiciary with the legend “political prisoner” in the form of protest.
