The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) submitted to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IDH-Court) the case of “torture and death in prison” of the Nicaraguan citizen Santos Sebastián Flores Castillo, who was imprisoned, subjected to humiliation and torture until appear lifeless in the La Modelo penitentiary, after denouncing that the dictator Daniel Ortega sexually abused and impregnated his sister, when she was 15 years old.
The IACHR reported this week that it presented to the Inter-American Court the Case 14,679referring to the imprisonment, subjection to acts of torture and death in prison of Flores Castillo, and for which the State of Nicaragua is responsible.
«I am pleased to address you, on behalf of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), with the aim of submitting Case No. 14,679 – Santos Sebastián Flores Castillo to the jurisdiction of the Honorable Inter-American Court of Human Rights regarding the Republic of Nicaragua (hereinafter “the State”, “the Nicaraguan State” or “Nicaragua”). The case refers to the international responsibility of the Republic of Nicaragua for the subjection to acts of torture of Santos Sebastián Flores Castillo, as well as for his death while he was deprived of liberty,” says the IACHR referral document, signed by the secretary. Deputy of the organization, Jorge Meza Flores.
In the presentation of the case, the IACHR reports that Flores Castillo was a Nicaraguan lawyer and notary public who, on behalf of his family, reported to non-governmental organizations such as the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (CENIDH) and the Permanent Commission on Human Rights (CPDH). ), as well as to the President’s office, that in 2005, two years before Daniel Ortega returned to power, the current Sandinista dictator would have started “a relationship” with his 15-year-old sister, with whom he would even have a daughter. .
After the complaint, the girl’s family began to suffer persecution, in particular Mr. Flores Castillo, who led the complaint. Reprisals against whistleblowers increased until in 2013, when Ortega began his second period in power, lawyer Flores Castillo was arrested, prosecuted and sentenced to 15 years in prison, according to his family, for crimes he never committed.
The complaints indicate that the lawyer suffered torture by State officials in the prison, and the complaints even claim that was sexually abused by other prisoners, without being helped by prison guards.
“On November 8, 2021, he died in prison from an alleged heart attack, although his family alleged that he had injuries, signs of torture and malnutrition, which is why they questioned the official version of his death,” says the case referral.
Dictator Daniel Ortega continues to indebt Nicaragua to communist China. This Thursday the credit facility contract was signed with the Company Communications Construction Company Limited (CCC), which, according to the regime, has been designated to build a third photovoltaic energy project, this time to supply electricity to the plants of the Nicaraguan Company of Aqueducts and Sanitary Sewers (Enacal).
The signing of the commercial and credit facility contract for 70 million 550 thousand dollars took place this Thursday, one day after the regime ordered the publication in La Gaceta, Official Gazette, of two presidential agreements in which it authorizes the president of Enacal, Ervin Barreda, and the Minister of Finance and Public Credit (MHCP), Bruno Gallardo, to sign the debt commitments with the Chinese company.
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“Nicaragua and China signed contracts for the execution of the ENESOLAR 3 Solar Project, which will be carried out in Masaya, with the purpose of continuing to develop works, to improve the living conditions of the Nicaraguan people,” said Vice-dictator Rosario Murillo during her monologue. newspaper through the official propaganda media.
A week after becoming ambassador of the Philippines, Ortega’s Mario José Armengol Campos, once again, is awarded with a fifth embassy in Southeast Asia, this time as ambassador of Nicaragua, in a concurrent capacity, to the Government of Indonesia.
Armengol Campos, renowned former leader of the National Union of Students of Nicaragua (UNEN), also controlled by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, already has five embassies in Southeast Asia.
In the last six months, according to presidential agreements disclosed by the dictator Ortega in La Gaceta, he was appointed as ambassador to the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam, the latter being where Nicaragua has its diplomatic headquarters for Southeast Asia.
