The political prisoner Irving Larios, 62, is serving 230 days detained in the cells of “El Chipote”, a place where detainees are tortured. Larios was subjected to a political trial that presented a series of procedural irregularities and illegalities, according to a complaint by conscientious hostage defense attorneys.
The opponent was sentenced to a sentence of 13 years in prison and disqualification from holding public office. In addition to the payment of 800 days of fines, about 160 thousand cordobas. The guilty verdict was made by the Judge of the Tenth Criminal District of Trials, Nancy Aguirre Gudiel.
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Human rights organizations such as Cenidh described the judicial process of the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship against Irving Larios as “torture sessions”.
Cso eight months in prison
The opposition leader was arrested on September 20, 2021 by the regime’s police at his home. The dictatorship accused him of violating Law 1042, the Special Cybercrime Law, the same legal tool that he used to prosecute more than 40 opposition leaders who have been imprisoned since the end of May of last year in the electoral context.
Irving Larios is also an economist and sociologist, he is 62 years old and is president of the Institute for Research and Social Management (INGES). This entity facilitates and accompanies processes of citizen participation, gender equity, generational change and the coordination of actions for development.
The opponent is part of the 40 political prisoners imprisoned months prior to the general elections on November 7, 2021. In addition, the regime ordered the cancellation of the legal personality of the organization he led, prior to his arrest. That action is part of the dictatorship’s onslaught against freedom of association in the country.
According to the Mechanism for the Recognition of Political Prisoners, the dictatorship has imprisoned more than 180 opponents, has fabricated charges against them, and the arrests were illegal and arbitrary. They have been sentenced to several years in prison for raising their voices against the dictatorship.
