Former diplomat Mauricio Díaz Dávila, 71, was sentenced to nine years in prison and disqualified from holding public office, allegedly for “conspiring to undermine national integrity”said the Ortega justice, in a hearing held this Thursday, February 24, at the El Chipote prison facilities.
The also national director of the Citizens for Freedom (CxL) party He was found guilty on February 16 in a hermetic trial, in charge of the judicial Luden Quiroz García, of the Ninth Criminal District Court of Judgment. According to the defense, the Prosecutor’s Office failed to prove the alleged crime.
Díaz becomes the nineteenth prisoner of conscience convicted by the regime since the political trials began on February 1. In four weeks, Ortega’s justice has declared guilty, mainly, for the alleged crimes of “conspiracy” and “spread of fake news” 27 prisoners of conscience.
In the few minutes that the Ortega justice granted Diaz to express himself during the trial, the former diplomat declared himself “innocent” and stressed that he has always been “an honest, transparent person who has never asked for external financing or conspired against his country.” In addition, he stressed: “As long as God does not condemn me, let man condemn me.”
“Selling my homeland would make me ashamed”
The renowned lawyer recalled that he participated “in the creation of the Political Constitution of the country, I already know all those laws and I am not violating them.”
“We fight for the freedoms of this people. Selling my homeland would make me ashamed,” she stressed.
The evidence presented by the Ortega Prosecutor’s Office included testimonies from National Police officers; detectives and computer experts, and videos of interviews that the prisoner of conscience granted to the media outlets Canal 10 and 100% Noticias, where he gave “political criteria” on the situation in the country.
Díaz Dávila was arrested on August 9, 2021after being violently captured by a group of National Police officers who intercepted him, beat his son and the lawyer who accompanied him, after testifying before the Ortega Prosecutor’s Office.
The confinement of more than 190 days to which he has been subjected has deteriorated his physical and psychological health. His relatives have denounced that inside the cells of El Chipote he has fainted, has mental blackouts and spots on his skin as a result of the few hours of sunlight he is authorized.
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