The vice dictator of Nicaragua and government spokesperson Rosario Murillo announced the release of 1,600 common prisoners from all the country’s prisons, which will take place next Friday, December 6, and with this new release the figure is close to 53 thousand prisoners for common crimes “forgiven” by dictators.
During his daily monologue this Tuesday, December 3, through the Sandinista propaganda media network, Murillo reported that, in honor of the Marian celebrations, which take place in the country between November 28 and December 8 In homage to the Virgin Mary, a total of 1,600 common prisoners who are currently serving sentences for various crimes in the country’s different penitentiary centers will be released.
According to the information released by the dictatorship’s spokesperson, 1,491 men and 109 women will be sent to the streets, under the modality of “family coexistence”, a penitentiary resource that the dictatorship’s propaganda calls “presidential pardon”, used by tyrants as part of their permanent personality cult campaign, and to show the autocrats of Managua as kind beings, since the freed prisoners must thank Ortega for granting them the “sorry”.
«Honoring our Mother Mary, 1,600 people who have been in the different establishments of the National Penitentiary System (SPN) will be returning to their family, to their homes, in a new opportunity to live as they should. be,” said the vice dictator.
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The constant release of common prisoners in Nicaragua is an action questioned by human rights defense organizations because it is done without observing criteria for the type of crimes, which must not be serious, reeducation of the sanctioned person, and compliance with the sentence, since the majority of those released do not serve even two-thirds of the sentence imposed, many of them have been prosecuted more than once, that is, they are repeat offenders, in addition, a good percentage of those released are serving sentences for serious crimes, so they do not fulfill the requirements to be included in the family coexistence benefit.
Murillo assures that the releases of criminals whom he calls “brothers who made mistakes” is a sign that Nicaragua “is a homeland of peace and good, (and) there are rights and opportunities” and added that the granting of family coexistence has been carried out every four months.
Murillo’s statement could not be more cynical if one takes into account that in the last two weeks alone, at least 40 Nicaraguans perceived by the repressive forces as opponents have been “kidnapped” by the police in the service of their tyranny. These citizens have been deprived of their freedom without the right to their citizen guarantees and the majority are kept in a condition of “forced disappearance”, since the regime does not account for them.
Murderous pardon
The high level of danger of many of those “pardoned” by the Ortega-Murillo regime has meant that once sent to the streets, they have gone out to take revenge on the victims who denounced them, mainly when it comes to crimes of domestic violence or violence. sexist.
According to a publication by the media Confidencial, at least 10 women have been murdered by sexist men “pardoned” by the regime who have gone out to finish the crime that they could not finish before being imprisoned.
During a recent press conference, before Sandinista propaganda media, the general director of the National Penitentiary System, Julio Orozco, acknowledged that of the more than 51 thousand prisoners released so far, at least 8.5 percent have reoffended.
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This means that at least 9 out of every hundred common prisoners pardoned by the dictatorship commit a crime again and are imprisoned again. A worrying fact is that repeat offenders generally return to prison for more serious crimes than the previous one, that is, they come out of prison more dangerous.
According to the data kept by the independent media, counting each “pardon” that the dictatorship has granted, between 2014, when the “presidential pardon” campaign began until December 6, when the 1,600 prisoners announced by the government spokesperson, a total of 52,621 common prisoners will have been sent to the streets before completing their respective sentences.
