Federal judge Ariel Lijo requests the international capture for extradition purposes of Daniel Ortega, Rosario Murillo and the rest of the defendants to be investigated by the Argentine Justice for “serious violations against human rights”
An Argentine judge ordered the international arrest of the president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, and his wife and vice president, Rosario María Zambrana Murillo, and other members of his Government for alleged human rights violations, one of the lawyers who promote the judicial complaint.
The arrest warrant was issued by federal judge Ariel Lijo, who since 2022 has been processing a case against Ortega and Murillo opened based on a complaint filed, among others, by the Argentine lawyer Darío Richarte.
«After almost two and a half years of investigation, the judge has just resolved the summons to give an investigative statement and the arrest warrant with a request for the international arrest of Daniel OrtegaRosario Murillo and around a dozen others responsible for serious violations of human rights,” Richarte said through the social network.
In a 76-page resolution cited by the newspaper Ámbito Financiero, Lijo requests the international capture for the purposes of extradition of Ortega, Murillo and the rest of the accused to be investigated by the Argentine Justice for “serious violations of human rights.”
According to the judicial document, in Nicaragua a “systematic and widespread plan of violent repression against the civilian population” was launched in 2018 that made use of “the structure of the state apparatus” and whose objective “was the deterrence of social demonstrations and the persecution of dissident political sectors.
According to the resolution, “there were arbitrary imprisonments, murders, acts of torture, forced disappearance of people, forced transfer of the population, deportations, media censorship, deprivation of medical care, suppression of qualifying professional registrations, persecution for political and religious reasons, cancellation of legal personality and removal of nationality.
Under the principle of universal jurisdiction, the complaint against Ortega was presented before the federal courts of Buenos Aires on August 26, 2022 by a group of lawyers, professors from the University of Buenos Aires, with the support of law students.
Between November 2022 and February 2024, the complainant team presented seven extensions to the lawsuit.
Ortega, 79 years old and leader of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, governed Nicaragua between 1985 and 1990 and returned to the Presidency of his country in 2007.
With information from EFE
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