In a secret hearing, according to complaints, a sentence was handed down against six opponents of the Ortega regime. The citizens were arrested in April of this year within the framework of the fifth anniversary of the 2018 rebellion. Those convicted respond to the names of: Hazel Martínez Ulloa and Brenda Lee Baldelomar, originally from Chinandega; Martha Lorena Centeno Marín, from Managua; Ivonne Patricia Espinoza Hurtado, Luis Enrique Palma Obando and Anner Herrera, from Boaco.
The accusation against this group was made on April 24 and the case was brought by the Fourth Local Court of Managua in charge of the titular judge Ana María Vado Miranda. The State of Nicaragua appears as a victim and up to now the crimes they are accused of are unknown.
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The process continues in execution for the reading of the sentence in the Second Criminal District Court of Execution, Sentencing and Penitentiary Surveillance, Circumscription of Managua.
Once again, the Ortega justice system used four police officers as witnesses against the group of defendants.
Abuses in judicial processes continue
Pablo Cuevas, general director of the Nicaraguan Human Rights Ombudsman’s Office (DNDH), points out that these arbitrary processes continue to be invalid and only show that the authorities act according to the regime, violating legitimate defense, by denying them to have a lawyer they trust. Given this, the lawyer maintained that “those vices of the law only make them hostages of the government.”
Until the end of May, the Blue and White Monitoring Agency recorded 81 judicial processes with alternate measure, among the current political prisoners are Monsignor Rolando Álvarez and the journalist Víctor Ticay.
