Police reported the capture of the main suspect in the femicide of Britney Olivas Herrera, 17 years old. The Jinotegan teenager was found dead last weekend, after two days of having disappeared. According to the police, the perpetrator would have been her initials boyfriend JPOA., also 17 years old. The Police seized a knife with blood stains and a motorcycle on which both were traveling in Estelí, where the crime occurred.
The victim’s mother, Alicia Herrera, posted on her Facebook profile that the alleged femicide took the life of the minor because she confessed that she was pregnant.
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The European Union (EU) demanded that the Nicaraguan regime immediately and unconditionally release the political prisoners and annul the judicial proceedings against them, including the sentences.
Through its Twitter account, the European Union emphasized that «The judges and prosecutors of these trials have systematically violated due process and the Nicaraguan Penal Code itself; the presumption of innocence was violated by the Prosecutor’s Office in a public note, describing the detainees as “criminals” and “delinquents”».
The Prosecutor’s Office was unable to demonstrate the alleged money laundering and other alleged crimes charged to Cristiana Chamorro and four other political prisoners, including her brother Pedro Joaquín Chamorro.
Defense attorney Maynor Curtis explained to the Esta Semana program that the prosecutor presented a large number of documents in vain to try to support the testimonies of 30 “witnesses”, most of them policemen, but was unable to conclude that the political prisoners had committed money laundering.
When the defense asked one of the experts if the money from the US Agency for International Development, called by its acronym USAID, is dirty money, the policeman answered that it was not.
The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) described the judicial sentences imposed against Christian Chamorro and Pedro Joaquin Chamorromembers of the board of directors of the newspaper La Prensa.
The president of the IAPA, Jorge Canahuati, expressed that “the lack of independence of the Nicaraguan judges who continue to issue rulings without due process to satisfy the dictatorship is obvious.”
He added that “these convictions are an affront to the rule of law,” with which the regime tries to legitimize the closure of media outlets and the persecution of journalists.
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Humanitarian organizations asked the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to adopt “extraordinary measures” that guarantee the accountability of the Nicaraguan regime for the abuses committed since 2018.
In a public hearing, in which the representative of the dictatorship was absent, the current situation in the country was analyzed “in the context of impunity.” The Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh) denounced that, since Ortega returned to power in 2007, “a situation of institutional destruction” has been experienced, accentuated by the crimes committed in the framework of the social protests three years ago.
