(EFE).- The Nicaraguan authorities stripped 94 people of their Nicaraguan nationality this Wednesday, among them the writers Sergio Ramírez and Gioconda Belli, the auxiliary bishop of Managua, Silvio Báez, and the former commander of the revolution, Luis Carrión.
Also to the veteran human rights defender Vilma Núñez, former foreign minister Norman Caldera, former Sandinista magistrate Rafael Solís, former OAS ambassador Arturo McFields, journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro and 85 other Nicaraguans accused of crimes considered “treason against the homeland”, according to a sentence of the Court of Appeals of Managua.
In the resolution, read by the presiding magistrate of the Managua Court of Appeals, Ernesto Rodríguez, it is also ordered “the immobilization and confiscation in favor of the State of Nicaragua of all real estate and companies that the defendants have registered in their favor, either in a personal capacity, or as a legal person or companies in which they participate as partners, to answer for the crimes committed”.
Likewise, the defendants were declared fugitives from justice.
“Keep in mind the (94) accused of being traitors to the homeland for which the accessory penalties of absolute and special disqualification are imposed on them to hold public office, hold public office on behalf of or at the service of the State of Nicaragua, as well as hold positions of popular election and the loss of their citizen rights in perpetuity, respectively,” the ruling states.
Judge Rodríguez said that the 94 Nicaraguans had been accused by the Public Ministry of the crimes of conspiracy to undermine national integrity in real competition with the crime of spreading false news through information and communication technologies. , all to the detriment of the State of Nicaragua and society.
The Managua appeals magistrates explained that they made that decision based on the special Law that regulates the loss of Nicaraguan nationality
The Managua appeals magistrates explained that they made that decision based on the Special Law that regulates the loss of Nicaraguan nationality, which was expeditiously approved last Thursday, as well as the Law for the Defense of the Rights of the People to Independence. , Sovereignty and Self-Determination for Peace, published on December 22, 2020.
The judicial authorities notified the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of the Interior, and the Supreme Electoral Council of this ruling.
In addition to those already mentioned, among the other Nicaraguans stripped of their nationality are the academic Ernesto Medina, the former Minister of Education Humberto Belli, the researcher Elvira Cuadra and the opposition politicians Kitty Monterrey, Eliseo Núñez, Enrique Sáenz and Edipsia Dubón.
Also the journalists Carlos Fernando Chamorro, Sofía Montenegro, Luis Manuel Chavarría Galeano, Jennyfer Ortíz, Lucía Pineda Ubau, Patricia Orozco, Camilo de Castro, and the correspondent of the Spanish newspaper The country Wilfredo Miranda.
The list includes two former collaborators of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega: Julio López and Mónica Baltodano, as well as human rights defenders, priests, environmentalists, Sandinista dissidents, students, businessmen and merchants, among others.
Nicaragua has been going through a political and social crisis since April 2018 that 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 together with his wife, Rosario Murillo, as vice president, with her main contenders in prison or in exile.
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