35 days have passed since the last visit that Monsignor received Rolando Alvarez in the National Penitentiary System (SPN) Jorge Navarro, known as “La Modelo”, in Tipitapa, where he has been held since February 9, the date on which he refused to be exiled, along with 222 other former political prisoners, to the United States.
The only visit that the bishop of the Diocese of Matagalpa received was on Saturday, March 25, when the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo exhibited him in photographs and videos through its propaganda media.
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Article 66 recently learned, through a prison official, that the prelate has been denied the right to receive parcels and his relatives are informed that visits are prohibited, and that “until they receive orders from above they will allow him to be visited again.”
He stressed that “the authorities of La Modelo denied the brothers of Monsignor Rolando Álvarez the right to have a visit card.” “The last visit was authorized the same day and the relatives were called half an hour before,” added the internal source. of the men’s prison.
254 days of arbitrary confinement
For its part, the Nicaraguan University Alliance (STILL) recalled that this Sunday, April 30, the also apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Estelí celebrates 254 days of being kidnapped by justice at the service of the Nicaraguan dictatorship.
The student organization urged, through its Twitter account, to continue “raising our voices for the release of Monsignor Álvarez, spiritual leader and defender of human rights.”
The Nicaraguan court found Monsignor Rolando Álvarez guilty for the alleged crimes of “treason” and sentenced him to 26 years and four months in prison, stripped him of his Nicaraguan nationality and stripped him of his civil and political rights for life. . The prison sentence against the cardinal was announced on February 10, one day after resisting exile.
Álvarez Lagos is one of the most critical religious voices of the Ortega and Murillo administration, which led him to be the target of siege, threats and persecution by the Police, until on August 4, 2022, he was deprived of his freedom and on the 19th of the same month they assaulted the Episcopal Curia of Matagalpa, where he was together with other religious, accusing him of wanting to “conspire against the homeland.”
