The freedom of the more than 170 political prisoners and justice for those murdered are the main demands of the opposition organizations that came together in the framework of the fourth anniversary of the April 2018 rebellion. The so-called “April Day” includes a series of activities in Costa Rica and other countries where the Nicaraguan exile and diaspora are present.
“The civic insurrection of the people of Nicaragua in 2018, where youth stands out, left more than 350 murdered in the hands of a criminal dictatorship, thousands of exiles who continue to leave the country and currently maintains more than 177 political prisoners,” he said. Susana López, mother of Gerald Vázquez, one of the youths murdered at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN-Managua).
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“A state of terror has been imposed on their corpses and justice has not been achieved, nor has there been a response to the clamor and tears of the mothers who await justice, nor to the popular clamor for freedom and democracy,” he added.
Four years after the social protests, the regime still maintains a repressive line against the opposition and territorial leaderships. According to the released politician Solange Centeno, from the coordinating team of the “April Day”, she explained that the resistance of the people of Nicaragua was demonstrated in the November 2021 votes, an election unknown to the international community that had high rates of abstentionism, according to reports from Urnas Abiertas.
“(The resistance) lives on in the dignity of men and women who, in La Modelo, El Chipote and other torture centers, receive cruel treatment, endure humiliation, do not agree to sign judicial sentences for crimes they did not commit, in exchange for improving conditions. confinement or a release, “said López.
«More than 110 of those prisoners have been defending human rights for more than 3 years and some for more than 11 years, for demanding justice, and denouncing the abuses of the police, the military and a dictatorial regime. For them and them… we continue in resistance!” Centeno highlighted.
The organizers invited Nicaraguan opponents inside and outside Nicaragua, “without ideological and political distinctions, those of us who want freedom, justice and democracy, to promote coordinated and creative activities and join other proposals that we will soon be calling for freedom.” of all the political prisoners in Nicaragua».
“This event will take place in Costa Rica, and we hope that countries from Central America, Mexico, the United States, Canada and other European countries will actively join us, where we will sound our cry of resistance. We hope to conclude it with a great concert that will be joined by Nicaraguan artists from various parts of the world on Saturday, April 23, in San José, Costa Rica,” Centeno explained.
Reports from the Follow-up Mechanism for Nicaragua (Meseni) and the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) concluded that crimes against humanity were committed in Nicaragua and continue to go untried by national and international courts. international. The updated list of deaths adds up to 355 people killed in the context of the protests.
