The political prisoner Jaime Navarrete Blandón has already served his sentence imposed by the courts of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. Since January of this year he should have been released, but he remains captive in the cells of the National Penitentiary System (SPN), known as “La Modelo”.
According to the Be Human platform, the political hostage is sick. They denounce that the prison authorities deny that he be seen by a specialist so that they can determine the causes of his illnesses and give him medicine to alleviate the illnesses.
“Jaime Navarrete has been detained in La Modelos since July 2019, and despite having served his sentence in January 2023, they are still imprisoned in inhumane conditions,” the organization says on its Twitter account.
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Jaime Navarrete, since February 3, has had severe headaches and fainting spells in his cell, where he has been found unconscious on the floor. “His relatives denounce that despite having requested it, Jaime has not received medical attention,” highlights Be Human.
The political prisoner was sentenced to three years and six months in prison for the alleged crimes of possession of psychotropic drugs, other controlled substances and illegal possession of weapons. On January 24, the sentence was served.
Navarrete was kidnapped for the first time in 2018 and sentenced to 24 years in prison, allegedly for having murdered a paramilitary, however he was released from prison under the controversial Ortega Amnesty Law on June 10, 2019. A month later he was arrested again.
Navarrete is one of the more than 30 political prisoners who were not exiled to the United States on February 9. According to the dictator Daniel Ortega, the US embassy in Managua informed him that the hostage of conscience could not be accepted by Washington and continues to be locked up in the ergastulas of the Nicaraguan regime.
