Miguel Mora is the first candidate for the presidency and the second political prisoner to be sentenced by the Ortega justice, to 13 years in prison out of 15 that the Prosecutor’s Office had requested, in addition to disqualification from holding public office, according to the reading of the sentence carried out. this Wednesday, February 9, 2022, at the prison facilities of the Judicial Assistance Directorate (DAJ).
CONFIDENTIAL learned that Mora was present at the reading of the sentence and refused to sign the minutes of the hearing. The also journalist was found guilty of the crime of “undermining national integrity” by Ortega judge Nadia Camila Tardencilla, last Friday, February 4, in a hermetic hearing, which was only attended by his wife, fellow journalist Verónica Chávez.
The Prosecutor’s Office obedient to the Ortega regime presented as evidence against Mora, an interview he offered in 2018 to “The Grayzone” and four posts on his Twitter account. In three, he shares journalistic notes from 100% Noticias, a medium of which he is the founder, referring to sanctions from the United States and the United Kingdom, and another where he thanked the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, for speaking before the aggression suffered –in October 2020– by his wife.
During the trial, the defense failed to approach Mora, confirmed this media outlet. At the time of taking the floor, the journalist reiterated his innocence and pointed out that those who judged them committed “prevarication”. “I have not conspired against anyone, I am innocent,” he said.
Mora is the first presidential candidate of seven pre-candidates -Juan Sebastián Chamorro, Félix Maradiaga, Arturo Cruz, Medardo Mairena, Cristiana Chamorro and Noel Vidaurre (the latter two under house arrest)- that the Ortega regime imprisoned, along with other opposition leaders. , from the student, peasant and civil society sectors, between May and November 2021, in the latest repressive escalation in the face of an electoral process without political competition.
This Monday, February 7, the Ortega justice sentenced the political prisoner and former president of the Unión Democrática Renovadora (Unamos, formerly MRS), Ana Margarita Vijil, to ten years in prison -which the Prosecutor’s Office had requested-; She became the first area of conscience of more than thirty opponents imprisoned in Chipote, to be sentenced.
Twice before the Ortega justice
Mora, also owner of 100% Noticias, was arrested for the second time on June 20, 2021, three months after making public his candidacy for the presidency for the Democratic Restoration Party (PRD), which the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) ) of the Sandinista Front, in May 2021, stripped its legal status, in order to eliminate the electoral box of the National Coalition.
The communicator has been persecuted since April 2018, after he ordered the programming of Canal 100% Noticias —closed by the regime in December 2018— to cover, almost 24 hours a day, the social protests that called for the resignation of the leaders of the Sandinista Front. He was captured for the first time on the night of December 21, 2018, when the Police raided the facilities of Canal 100% Noticias, which were later confiscated by the Ortega regime.
He went to prison along with the press officer of that media outlet, Lucía Pineda Ubau. Both were released in June 2019, after six months of imprisonment, mistreatment and torture.
