The dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo arrested Max Jerez, father of the political prisoner of the same name, as reported by Divergentes on their social networks. Max Jerez Sr. is director of the San Francisco de Asís School, located in the Ciudadela Nicaragua neighborhood in the country’s capital.
“Max Jerez, father of the student leader and political prisoner of the same name, was arrested by the Police early this Monday (November 28),” the outlet reported on its Twitter account. Mr. Jerez is identified as an active member of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) party.
Some media report that the arrest of Max Jerez’s father has political overtones, but not because of his son; but because the dictatorship intends to take over the study center directed by Mr. Jerez, of which he is the founder.
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His neighbors reported to 100% News that the Sandinista could be detained in the cells of the Directorate of Judicial Assistance (DAJ), known as “El Chipote”, the same place where his son is confined.
Mr. Max Jerez —according to the media outlet— is a prominent Sandinista leader from the Villa Flor Sur neighborhood in Managua, a member of the Citizen Participation Councils (CPC) and would have stopped speaking with his son as a result of the social protests in April 2018. Jerez joins the list of Sandinista militants detained by the Police.
The arrest of the student leader
The student leader Max Jerez was arrested on July 5, 2021, a few months before the presidential elections of November 2021, in a day of hunting down opponents that included seven presidential candidates who would try to wrest the Nicaraguan Presidency from the polls from the dictator Daniel Ortega. The opponent was sentenced to 13 years in prison. They charged him with the crime of “conspiracy to undermine national integrity.”
On September 17, 2021, a few months after he was arrested, the mother of political prisoner Max Jerez, Heydi Meza, died after spending more than a month in a Managua hospital. Meza was unable to see her son before she died. Relatives reported that the woman suffered from pneumonia and pleural effusion.
On August 30, the political prisoner was presented in the Managua courts after 14 months of being incarcerated. Despite the harassment of the cameramen from the government propaganda media, Jerez stood with his head held high and with a serene gaze.
