After the European Parliament approved a resolution asking the European Union to sanction an official from the Nicaraguan Judiciary, human rights defender Haydée Castillo pointed out that the international community “is becoming aware that the dictatorship of (Daniel) Ortega does not understand the call no exhortations.
In interview with Article 66the opposition said that in these last four years international diplomacy has wanted to reach an understanding with the Nicaraguan regime and make it give in so that it does not continue violating human rights, but it has had no effect.
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In reference to the request of the European parliamentarians to sanction Ortega judges, Castillo indicated that “everyone knows” that the Judiciary has been one of the institutions that has been singled out as an instrument that the regime has used to criminalize ” dissidents or human rights defenders”.
“As long as there is a biased power of the State in favor of a dictatorial family, in Nicaragua there will be no possibility of getting out of this crisis that the country is going through,” added the opponent.
“Ortega is affected by sanctions”
For the human rights expert, the sanctions imposed against the Nicaraguan dictatorship affect her because it has been seen in the different appearances that Daniel Ortega criticizes these measures.
“We have seen the speeches of the regime that what it claims the most is for those pressure measures that the international community has put on it and that he himself (Ortega) cultivates so that these types of measures are taken,” he explained.
Regarding the request to investigate Daniel Ortega and his regime through the International Criminal Court, Haydée Castillo said that even though “Nicaragua is not a signatory to the International Criminal Court, all possibilities should be explored to carry out that investigation and have access to international justice and if the European Parliament raises it, it means that there are possibilities of finding those paths».
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Judges Nadia Camila Tardencilla, Ángel Jeancarlos Fernández González, Luden Martín Quiroz, Félix Ernesto Salmerón, Nancy Aguirre, Ulisa Tapia and Karen Chavarría, as well as Managua appeals magistrates Octavio Rothschuh Andino, Angela Dávila and Argentina Solís.
The resolution proposed by seven MEPs was approved with 524 votes in favor of 570, 17 against and 29 abstentions. MEPs denounced the abusive detention, the lack of procedural guarantees and the illegal sentences of political prisoners.
The European Parliament condemned the persecution of the opposition, the press and civil society in Nicaragua, where the deprivation of liberty for political reasons, indicated by humanitarian organizations, has been accentuating since 2018, when Nicaraguans came out en masse to protest against the President, Daniel Ortega, and were reduced with armed attacks.
Castillo concluded that what continues after the resolution of the European Parliament is that the European Council has to study it and the different instances to move from a political dilaceration into concrete actions.
“It should be remembered that these processes take a little time, and of course Nicaraguans are tired, desperate, but those are the times that the international community has been going through,” he stressed.
