The term given by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) for the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo to release 45 political prisoners will expire on October 18, the time in which the Nicaraguan dictatorship must inform the Supreme Court of compliance of the measures, recalled the Mexican lawyer José Ramón Cossío Día in a opinion piece published in the newspaper El País of Spain. The jurist served as minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation between 2003 and 2018.
On October 4, the president of the Inter-American Court, Ricardo Pérez, read in an act broadcast on the internet a unanimous resolution of the court in which he accepts the provisional measures requested by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in favor of the 45 political prisoners.
The former Mexican official assured that there is a week left before Ortega «decide what your commitment is to the system of rights and guarantees that the inter-American community has decided will govern the conduct of its authorities to protect the dignity of its populations.” He notes that the resolution “gives you a new opportunity to define yourself. We will soon know if he did it and, above all, how he executed it.
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“The Court verifies that in this matter the conditions in which the 45 detainees find themselves show the extreme seriousness and urgency that risks to health, integrity and life materialize due to the precarious conditions of detention, their condition of health, the lack of access to medicines, the lack of adequate food, and the acts of harassment and threats suffered”, explained Manrique.
The decision of the Inter-American Court orders the State to “adopt measures to effectively protect the life, integrity and personal liberty of the family units” of the detainees and to “immediately adopt measures to protect life, access to the health, integrity and personal liberty of detainees”.
The beneficiaries of the measures are: Jhon Cristopher Cerna, Fanor Alejandro Ramos, Edwin Antonio Hernández, Víctor Manuel Soza, Michael Rodrigo Samorio, Néstor Eduardo Montealto, Francisco Xavier Pineda, Manuel de Jesús Sobalvarro, Richard Alexander Saavedra, Luis Carlos Valle, Víctor Manuel Diaz, Nilson José Membreño, Edward Enrique Lacayo, Maycol Antonio Arce, María Esperanza Sánchez, Karla Vanessa Escobar.
The list closes Lázaro Ernesto Rivas, Gustavo Adolfo Mendoza, Denis Antonio García, Danny de los Ángeles García, Steven Moisés Mendoza, Wilber Antonio Prado, Walter Antonio Montenegro, Max Alfredo Silva, Gabriel Renán Ramírez, Wilfredo Alejandro Brenes, Marvin Samir López, Irving Isidro Larios, Roger Abel Reyes, José Antonio Peraza and Russia Evelyn Pinto.
