The political prisoner Jaime Navarrete Blandonoriginally from Managua, is serving his sentence of three years and six months this Tuesday, January 24, for the alleged crimes of possession of psychotropic narcotics, other controlled substances and illegal possession of weapons.
The prison sentence was imposed by Judge Melvin Vargas García, of the Seventh Criminal Trial District Court of Managua. The opponent fulfilled it in the Jorge Navarro de Tipitapa Penitentiary System, known as “La Modelo”.
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Margine Blandón, mother of the political prisoner, confirmed to Article 66 the information and expressed that he hopes “in the name of God” that his son can be released.
“His entire family awaits his freedom. It is only right that he be released; In addition, he needs medical attention in all aspects. I ask the Lord to show up and do his work. We hope in God that my son is free today,” Blandón said optimistically.
For his part, he Political Released Reflection Group (Grex) He indicated through his Facebook account that in “these last 1,277 days of confinement” Navarrete Blandón “has not seen his wife or his son.”
«These years have been a martyrdom for his family. It is time that she can go out and be able to hug her loved ones. We ask God to enlighten the hearts of those who have him locked up and to end the ordeal and suffering of this family, giving Jaime freedom,” GREX emphasized.
The professor and former politician Ricardo Baltodano He said that he hopes that the judicial authorities and the Tipitapa Penitentiary System “put their hand on their conscience, because the punishment to which Jaime -Navarrete- was subjected has already been fulfilled.”
He recalled that the political prisoner was imprisoned in 2018, and released in 2019, but in less than 40 days he was arrested again. “We believe that the sentence he paid is sufficient from a human point of view, so we appeal to humanism and we appeal to compliance with the laws and the sentence imposed and that Jaime Navarrete Blandón be released.”
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“We hope that they do not come out with another hoax as it has been in other cases that do not want to release them despite the fact that they have served their sentence. Jaime has suffered a lot, he has serious health problems. He has difficulty breathing and he has not seen his wife and his daughter since the first time he was imprisoned,” the teacher stressed.
Navarrete, 38, was kidnapped for the first time in 2018 and sentenced to 24 years in prison, allegedly for having murdered a paramilitary, however he was released from prison under the controversial Ortega Amnesty Law on June 10, 2019. His freedom It was one of the shortest because on July 24 of the same year he was captured again.
Half “joy”
If the young opponent is released, happiness for him and his family will be “bittersweet”, because his uncle, Rodrigo Navarrete, was captured by the Police on November 25, 2022, in the Loma Linda neighborhood, at his home.
Unofficial sources affirm that the raid on the home of the now political prisoner occurred in the early hours of the morning, but the prosecution’s accusation indicates that it happened at 10:20 in the morning.
The Public Ministry (MP) filed charges against Navarrete for alleged “illegal possession or possession of firearms and ammunition.” According to the accusation to which he had access Article 66. The victim who appears in the judicial document is the “public security of Nicaraguan society.”
At the request of the Nicaragua Nunca Más Human Rights Collective, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) granted precautionary measures to the political prisoner Rodrigo Navarrete and his immediate family, after considering that his rights are in a serious and urgent situation.
With this new detention, the list of political prisoners has grown. To date, there are more than 230 captive opponents in the different jails of Nicaragua.
