The opposition and political prisoner Evelyn Pinto Centeno She was sentenced to eight years in prison for the alleged crimes of “conspiracy to undermine national integrity” and cybercrimes.
According to the Legal Defense Unit (UDJ), the sentence was divided into five years for alleged “conspiracy against the homeland” and three for “propagation of false news.” In addition, Daniel Ortega’s regime imposed 500 days of fines on her and disqualified her from holding public office.
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Ortega judge Irma Oralia Laguna Cruz, of the First Trial Court of Managua, was in charge of reading the sentence to the 63-year-old hostage of conscience.
The Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh) pointed out through its Twitter account that the sentence against the human rights defender “is an affront to justice in Nicaragua. #Is innocent».
Pinto Centeno is part of the group of hostages of conscience of the elderly of the Nicaraguan regime. She is part of the list of 14 opposition women held captive for political reasons in the different prison systems of Nicaragua.
Pinto’s arrest was on November 6, hours before the “electoral farce” with which Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo prevailed again. On December 1, 2021, she was transferred, along with fellow political prisoner Samantha Jirón, to the Women’s Comprehensive Penitentiary Establishment (EPIM), better known as “La Esperanza”.
False evidence to convict her
To convict the opponent and then convict her, the Public Ministry presented four police officers as witnesses, who according to Silvia Nadine Gutiérrez, Pinto’s daughter, contradicted each other in their statements.
«The evidence was totally false, there was also a lot of contradiction in the testimonies of the policemen. Some said that they had followed up on my mother’s (Evelyn Pinto) house for a long time, but when the lawyer asked them what the house was like, they didn’t even know how to say », she denounced her before Article 66 the daughter of the political prisoner.
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He explained that the evidence presented against the opponent was posts on Facebook, videos and a post on Twitter, which according to Gutiérrez were not from his mother’s account, much less did he retweet, as the Prosecutor’s Office points out. “The Twitter account that the Police presented was totally different from the one that she (Evelyn Pinto) presented,” she stated.
«Another of the big lies that the Police told is that my mother was arrested on November 18 when she was arrested on November 6. They say that she was arrested on the street, when what they did was break into the house and take her away, “added Gutiérrez Pinto.
To date, the Ortega justice system holds 21 elderly opponents captive, many of whom have presented health complications. Pinto has been captive since December 1, 2021 in the cells of the Tipitapa Penitentiary System, known as “La Esperanza”.
Because she is a cancer survivor, the political prisoner needs tests to monitor her health to see if the medicine she is given is adequate. Family members demand immediate attention to their health.
