Those convicted by the Nicaraguan justice system are Brenda Lee Baldelomar Alemán, Martha Lorena Centeno Marín, Ivonne Patricia Espinoza Hurtado, Hazel del Socorro Martínez Ulloa, Luis Enrique Obando Palma and Anner Herrera
The Nicaraguan Justice found six opposition activists guilty for crimes in which the State and Nicaraguan society are the “victims”, as reported this Sunday by the Nicarao digital system of the Judiciary.
The six Nicaraguan citizens were arrested last April in the midst of a wave of arrests, mostly opponents and Catholic parishioners, as well as a journalist, in the framework of the fifth anniversary of the popular demonstrations that broke out in 2018 against the Government of Daniel Ortega. .
Those convicted are Brenda Lee Baldelomar Alemán, Martha Lorena Centeno Marín, Ivonne Patricia Espinoza Hurtado, Hazel del Socorro Martínez Ulloa, Luis Enrique Obando Palma and Anner Herrera.
The accusation against these six activists was presented by the special prosecutor Heydi Estela Ramírez Olivas, and the case was filed in the Fourth Local Criminal Court of Managua, presided over by Judge Ana María Vado Miranda.
Subsequently, they were sent to the Second Criminal District Court for the Execution of Sentences and Penitentiary Surveillance, Managua circumscription, in charge of Judge Carmen María Velásquez Lazo, who found them guilty.
The lawyer and activist Yonarqui Martínez explained to journalists that the six citizens were found guilty last May, since the Nicarao case system indicates that their file went to the execution phase on June 6. The Nicarao digital system of the Judiciary does not specify the crimes for which they were convicted.
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With those six convicted, there are seven found guilty in recent days. The first was the Nicaraguan journalist Víctor Ticay, a collaborator of Channel 10 of the local television and arrested in Holy Week after covering a religious procession, who was found guilty of the crimes of “propagation of false news” and undermining national integrity, considered “treason”.
Nicaragua has been going through a political and social crisis since April 2018, which has worsened after the controversial general elections of November 7, 2021, in which Ortega was re-elected for a fifth term, fourth in a row and second along with his wife Murillo as vice president. , with its main contenders in prison.
*With information from EFE via swissinfo
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