The Federal Department of Economic Affairs of Swiss decided to renew the santions against 21 officials and three institutions of the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, due to the “serious violations of human rights and the repression of civil society and the democratic opposition in Nicaragua.”
The renewal of these sanctions entered into force on January 24, and will be valid for one more year, in which the situation in the Central American country will be evaluated. On the list of sanctioned are the vice president of Nicaragua Rosario Murillo and her children Laureano, Camila and Juan Carlos Ortega Murillo.
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He Father Oscar Benavidezparish priest of Mulukukú, from the Diocese of Siuna, was sentenced to 10 years in prison, revealed the digital media office 505. On January 16, the religious man was found guilty for the alleged crimes of conspiracy to undermine national integrity and propagation of false news to the detriment of the State and Nicaraguan society.
According to the same outlet, during the judicial process, the alleged witnesses of Mulukukú did not provide relevant information that compromised the priest. Therefore, the Prosecutor’s Office had to use images taken from the father’s cell phone, which included anti-government memes, to frame the religious.
He Father Enrique Martinez Gamboaparish priest of the Santa Martha Church, of the Archdiocese of Managua, will be subjected to a political trial on February 10, anonymous sources revealed to Article 66.
The religious is accused of the alleged crimes of conspiracy to undermine national integrity and propagation of false news to the detriment of the State of Nicaragua.
The priest was violently kidnapped on October 13, 2022 and became, at that time, the ninth religious imprisoned by the Ortega Murillo regime in the context of repression against the Nicaraguan Catholic Church.
Caritas de Jinotega announced its closure, a source close to that Catholic foundation confirmed to the media platform Voces Unidas.
By the end of 2022, the institution dedicated to charity of the Catholic Church in this department closed with “red balances” because the Ministry of the Interior (Migob) denied them the guarantee to receive support from donor organizations. According to the information, the director of that foundation, Monsignor Carlos Enrique Herrerabishop of the Diocese of Jinotega and president of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua, has already asked to resign himself to this bad news.
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More than 3,800 people were killed by a devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck southeastern Turkey and northern Syria on Monday, and was felt as far as Greenland.
In Turkey, where the epicenter was recorded, at least 2,379 people died and more than 14,000 people were injured. According to the authorities of that country, more than 7,000 people have been removed from the rubble and more than 4,000 buildings have collapsed.
