The political prisoner Pedro Jose Gutierrez Gonzalez42, who recently demonstrated in the streets of Managua demanding the release of Monsignor Rolando Álvarez and the more than 30 political prisoners in Nicaragua, was arrested and charged before the regime’s courts.
The opponent was criminally accused on February 12 by the prosecutor Luis Carlos Mongalo Roblero for an unspecified crime before the head of the Ninth Criminal Court of Hearing, Karen Chavarría Morales. The document indicates that the State of Nicaragua and Nicaraguan society consider themselves the victim.
The new political prisoner called for the release of the Bishop of Matagalpa and expressed his opinion on his social networks. He last video you posted on facebook He did so on February 10, one day after the dictatorship exiled 222 political prisoners, and sentenced the religious leader, who refused exile, without trial.
That day, Peter Gutierrez He went out into the streets with a rosary in hand and shouted: «Courage, strength and faith always! Freedom for Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, although the dictatorship has given him 26 years in prison, we consider Rolando Álvarez a priest of the town. Long live Nicaragua!”
According to information, the political prisoner was detained without a warrant two days later, on February 12, presumably by plainclothes policemen who took him from his home and took him away in a private vehicle in the Bello Horizonte sector, in Managua.
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Peter Gutierrez He is an industrial mechanic and was kidnapped from a mechanical workshop in the Villa Reconciliación neighborhood, where he was working on July 4, 2018. He was imprisoned for 18 months. In September 2019, his relatives denounced before national human rights organizations the physical and psychological abuse to which he was being subjected by the Ortega jailers in the Jorge Navarro Penitentiary System, known as “La Modelo”.
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The political prisoner has only one leg and uses a prosthesis to walk. On December 30, 2019, the Ortega regime sent him to his house under the condition of family coexistence. Gutiérrez was accused, along with two other former politicians, of the alleged crimes of aggravated robbery and simple kidnapping until they were found not guilty in 2020.
