The released political prisoner and opposition leader from Masaya, Yubrank Suazo, was formally accused in the regime’s judicial system for the alleged crimes of “conspiring to undermine” the State.
According to the judicial file, shared on social networks by the lawyer for political prisoners and social activist Yonarqui Martínez, the process against the also member of the organization Alianza Cívica por la Justicia y la Democracia will be carried out in the Fifth Court of the Penal District of Managua.
Yubrank charged with conspiracy and undermining.
One more invented process.
Freedom. pic.twitter.com/tr3Kts0TUA– Yonarqui Martinez G (@YonarquiM) May 20, 2022
Suazo He was violently arrested by police officers. of the regime when he was at his house, in the early hours of Wednesday, May 18, 2022.
The Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh) denounced that the police officers raided Suazo’s house “with great violence”, “destroyed everything” and took him away without indicating where he would be transferred.
?LAST MINUTE| at 5:15 am he was kidnapped with luxury of violence @SuazoYubrank from the house of his parents, who are extremely distressed because they do not know of his whereabouts. We condemn this act and demand his immediate freedom and respect for his personal integrity. #FreedomNow pic.twitter.com/u7B9Z4fcrW
— Cenidh (@cenidh) May 18, 2022
“His parents are extremely distressed because they do not know of his whereabouts. We condemn this act and demand his immediate freedom and respect for his personal integrity, ”Cenidh indicated through its social networks when he denounced Suazo’s kidnapping.
Later, relatives of the released political prisoner managed to confirm that he was in the jail of the Directorate of Judicial Assistance known as El Chipote.
The accusation against Suazo is in charge of the assistant prosecutor Carlos Rafael Espinoza Castillawho has already brought legal charges against more than a dozen prisoners of conscience.
The Fifth Court of the Criminal District of Managua is in charge of Judge Nalia Nadezhda Ubeda Obando, who has also been in charge of processes against opponents and human rights defenders accused by the Ortega regime.
CONFIDENTIAL He spoke with a relative of Suazo who was present when the police raid took place and explained that there were more than a dozen riot police officers, who arrived in two patrols. “They entered with violence, they broke the padlock on the gate and the door,” he explained.
“Upon entering, the police first found Yubrank’s father, they pushed him and hit him without caring that he is a 77-year-old person, so Yubrank came out and told them: ‘don’t hit him, I’m here if they’re going to take me’ ”, he recounted.
The source assured that the officers did not show any judicial order and that they did not explain why they were taking Suazo.
Before his capture, Yubrank Suazo denounced the police siege against the priest Harving Padilla, parish priest of the San Juan Bautista church in Masayaas well as in the home of their parents.
In 2018, Suazo was imprisoned for the first time by the Ortega-Murillo regime, which at the time accused him of allegedly committing acts of terrorism, attempted murder, threats with weapons, and hindering public services. Later, in June 2019, he was released along with other political prisoners under the controversial amnesty law created by Ortega.
