The Court of Appeals of Managua rejected the appeal filed by the defense of the opponent and now a political prisoner Beyker Enrique Ferretti Hernandez, 22, sentenced to 15 years in prison for the murder of the child Teyler Lorio Navarreteone of the victims of the repression during the social protests in 2018.
Consequently, the Ortega magistrates Angela Navarrete, Rosa Argentina Solis Davila and Octavio Ernesto Rothschuh Andino ratified the sentence imposed on December 20, 2022, by the judge of the Thirteenth Criminal District Court of Managua, ulisa tapia.
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According to the media outlet Despacho 505, “the appeal was filed on March 15, 2023 and among the grievances exposed by the defense it is detailed that there was no correlation between the accusation, evidence presented at trial and the sentence.”
It also indicates that the Prosecutor’s Office presented as a witness a well-known Sandinista militant, identified as Hernaldo Jose Salinas Aguilar, who affirmed that on the day of the murder of the minor, he saw that “Ferretti fired two shots in the direction of the police officers and that one hit the head of the baby who was being carried in his father’s arms”, which contradicts the version of the Police officers who testified at the trial.
Article 66 learned that the defense pointed out a series of inconsistencies in the process, in which the court approved the statements of only one witness from the Prosecutor’s Office, “dismissing, in addition, the testimony of the fathers of the boy Teyler Lorío —main witnesses—, who They repeatedly stated that Beyker Ferretti is innocent.”
Father of the minor rejects conviction
For his part, Nelson Lorio Sandoval, The father of the minor, described the sentence against Ferretti as unfair and arbitrary, affirming that the one who should pay the sentence is the deputy dictator of Nicaragua Rosario Murillo “who gave the order to go with everything; And she must not only pay for this crime, but for that of many other innocent people ».
“Justice is kidnapped in Nicaragua, it is delivered from El Carmen, and if you think differently from the Government you get into trouble. I know this boy —Beyker Ferretti— and I know that he is an opponent, we were in the trenches of Americas One,” he added.
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He also said that the new political prisoner is one of those unjustly sentenced by the Ortega dictatorship just for thinking differently. «I oppose this sentence, although we already saw it coming because justice in Nicaragua is on the side of the criminal in power. The only thing I can do is continue to demand the freedom of this young man and of all the political hostages who are increasingly being used as a bargaining chip », he refuted.
The 14-month-old baby lost his life on June 23, 2018, from an AKA rifle shot to his head, during social protests, which left a balance, according to human rights organizations, of more than 300 murdered.
