This Monday, April 3, marks the 13th anniversary of the murder of Dina Alexandra Carrión González, who was found lifeless in the patio of her house with a bullet wound to the chest in 2010. The victim’s family points to Juan Carlos Siles Savaria, who was Carrión’s partner, as responsible; however, the Nicaraguan court found him not guilty.
Dina Carrión’s family also questions the Daniel Ortega regime for ending the investigations and acting with impunity. According to them, she protects the alleged attacker. Siles was the only person who accompanied the victim at the time of the events, according to the account documented in the testimonies presented.
In 2019, the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) closed the case that they classified as suicide, since it resolved in favor of Siles Saravia, an appeal for amparo that he filed against the Public Ministry, which intended to reopen the case in 2013.
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Throughout thirteen years, according to Aida Carrión, the victim’s sister, her family has fought to obtain justice and personally has had to know how to face many adversities.
In the search for that justice, in November 2022, the relatives of Dina Carrión filed a lawsuit before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (I/A Court HR) in against the State of Nicaragua for the denial of justice in the case of the femicide against his relative.
The petition was received by the Court, which granted a period of two months to the Ortega dictatorship to answer the lawsuit filed against him. The regime did not respond.
“In accordance with Article 41.1 of the Rules of Procedure of this Court, the answering brief by the State must be submitted within a non-extendable period of two months from the receipt of the pleadings, motions, and evidence brief. In the present case, the brief of requests, arguments, and evidence was sent to the State on November 28, 2022,” the international organization notified.
«In this sense and in accordance with the provisions of Agreement No. 1/14 “Precisions on the computation of deadlines”, the deadline for the presentation of the answer began to be computed from the day after the sending of said communication, that is to say , as of November 29, 2022.
In view of the foregoing, the deadline for the presentation of the answering brief by the State expired on January 30, 2023, without the said brief having been received by this Secretariat,” he said.
Consequently, the I/A Court HR reported that the lawsuit filed against the State of Nicaragua “will continue its processing without the response brief.”
Aida Carrión denounced that this Monday, “the 13th anniversary of the femicide in impunity of Dina Alexandra Carrión González, by the State of Nicaragua, her family continues to fight to obtain justice in the Inter-American Court with the accompaniment of Cenidh and the Human Rights Collective. Nicaragua Never Again».
After the death of Dina Alexandra Carrión, her family has started an “ordeal” to demand an impartial investigation and justice against the alleged femicide. In the years leading up to 2018, her parents and her siblings were on the streets in every mobilization they could to show the portrait of the deceased and demand that they go to the last consequences. Her father, Humberto Carrión, died without obtaining justice.
