Almost 20 months after the arbitration arrest against the former president of the Superior Council of Private Enterprise (Cosep), Jose Adam Aguerri, the Reflection Group Released Political Prisoners (Grex) pointed out that the opponent is in prison for having challenged the Daniel Ortega regime.
Through a publication on his Facebook page, the Grex expressed that the also member of the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy is a “victim” for having led “the break of businessmen with the policies of the dictatorship in 2018 ».
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As for the links of big business with the Ortega regime, the group recalled that Aguerri “represented the will of thousands of businessmen who years ago took advantage of the economic boom produced by “Venezuelan aid” and many international organizations.”
«Like thousands of Nicaraguans they never dimensioned the enormous risks that the institutional dismantling of the incipient democracy of Nicaragua meant. Their criticism of the government was lukewarm, but finally the popular rebellion changed their outlook and they broke with the regime,” the Grex stressed.
He adds that the Nicaraguan regime does not forgive the change of position of José Adán Aguerri and other Cosep executives, for which reason it kidnapped and sentenced them. “He is in prison because he exercised his right to change, to rectify, challenging the monster that had taken root, running the risks that thousands of Nicaraguans have taken,” he remarked.
He also stressed that in all the time he has been deprived of his liberty, Aguerri has been subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, a victim of the lack of rule of law.
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“No government has the right to imprison anyone for their political positions, the dictatorship hates them, because even in the worst circumstances, this break has not been turned back and Ortega and Murillo remain deeply isolated from the people of Nicaragua and the world. We demand their immediate release!” stressed the Political Released Reflection Group.
Incarcerated since June 2021
On June 8, 2021, the former boss of the employer was arrested by the Ortega Police, and later charged for the alleged crime of “conspiring to undermine national integrity”, a legal figure invented by the regime to imprison dissidents. . The judge of the Fifth Criminal Trial District, Félix Ernesto Salmerón Moreno, sentenced him to 13 years in prison.
Aguerri spent another two months under house arrest. On August 18, the propaganda media of the Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo regime reported that the political prisoner was sent to his house due to health problems that required “close and permanent care.”
But in November 2022, he was transferred again to the cells of the Judicial Assistance Directorate (DAJ), known as El Nuevo Chipote, at noon this Wednesday, as confirmed to Article 66 a source from the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy (ACJD).
Like Aguerri, the businessmen and directors of Cosep are political prisoners of the Daniel Ortega regime, michael healy Y Alvaro Vargas, captives in the cells of the Directorate of Judicial Assistance.
Ortega judge Ángel Jeancarlos Fernández González, of the Fourth Criminal District Court of Managua, sentenced Healy to 13 years in prison for “undermining national integrity” and nine years to Vargas for “conspiracy against national integrity.”
