the student leader Jason Noel Salazar Rugama He has been a political prisoner of the Nicaraguan regime for 85 days. On April 4, he was detained by the Daniel Ortega Police.
After being detained for more than two months in Police District Three, in Managua, the vice president of the April 19 University Movement (MU19A) was transferred, on June 9, to the Jorge Navarro Penitentiary System, known as “La Modelo”, in Tipitapa.
After almost three months in detention, the MU19A pointed out, through its Twitter account, that the kidnapping of the 27-year-old opponent “is an violation of his human, political and fundamental rights and an affront to justice.”
“As a society, we must come together to demand their immediate release and end the persecution of youth in #Nicaragua. #LiberenAJassonSalazar», urged the university group.
Benefited from precautionary measures
On June 19, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) granted precautionary measures to Salazar Rugama, considering that the young opponent is in a “risk situation.”
The organization indicated that it requested information on the situation of the also vice president of the 19 de Abril University Movement (MU19A) from the Nicaraguan authorities, however, they did not provide data “that allows determining that the identified risk factors have been duly mitigated.”
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“After analyzing the allegations of fact and law referred to in this matter, the IACHR considered that Jasson Salazar Rugama is in a situation of risk due to his condition of solitary confinement after his deprivation of liberty and lack of information about the conditions of imprisonment. and state of health by state authorities,” he stressed.
The justice of the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo accused Salazar for alleged crimes of “treason against the homeland.” According to the Mechanism for the Recognition of Political Prisoners of Nicaragua, the Justice of Ortega maintains 64 opponents held captive in the different prisons of the country.
