The priest Manuel Salvador García was found guilty of physical violence against Martha Candelaria Rivas, a woman who declared that the alleged attack was an accident and assured that she did not file a formal complaint.
This is the second trial promoted by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo against the priest. The first was due to exposure of people to danger. He was found guilty and sentenced to two years in prison.
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Nicaraguan human rights defenders denounced that the “judicial farce” perpetrated by the Ortega justice system against Father Manuel Salvador García is a legal aberration and a clear sign that the Nicaraguan regime has intensified the political persecution against the Catholic Church.
Ortega’s justice referred the priest Manuel Salvador García to a second oral and public trial, parish priest of the Jesús de Nazareno church, in Nandaime; for the alleged crime of assault.
The alleged victim of “violence”, Martha Candelaria Rivas Hernández, He retracted the accusation that the Nicaraguan regime is keeping the case open for him, accusing him of the crime.
The woman is also in prison accused of false testimony for retracting the accusation against the parish priest of the Jesús Nazareno de Nandaime Church.
