The dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo released the political prisoner Rodrigo Navarrete, uncle of Jaime Navarrete Blandón, also a prisoner of conscience. The release took place on the night of Monday, March 27, confirmed sources on condition of anonymity to Article 66.
In the oral and public trial Rodrigo Navarrete was declared “not guilty”. After that sentence, the court issued a release order for the opponent who had already accumulated four months and two days in prison in the prisons of the Ortega Murillo dictatorship.
Rodrigo Navarrete was arrested at dawn on November 25 at his home located in the Loma Linda neighborhood, in Managua. The policemen arrived asking for alleged firearms, however they found nothing, they only took some cell phones.
The Prosecutor’s Office filed charges for alleged “illegal possession or possession of firearms and ammunition” against Rodrigo Navarrete, according to the indictment of the Public Ministry to which this media outlet had access. The victim who appears in the judicial document is the “public security of Nicaraguan society.”
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In the search —according to the Public Ministry— ammunition of various calibers for civilian use and restricted use that were in his possession “without being duly authorized by the Directorate of Weapons, Explosives and Ammunition of the National Police” were seized.
Navarrete, being a retired military man, had firearms, but since 2018 they denied him the renewal of his carrying permits and in the face of this refusal, it was the same Police who seized his weapons and he handed them over without much resistance, but on February 25 November was arrested for this alleged crime.
The opponent was seen in different marches and express pickets -when they could be carried out- demanding the freedom of his nephew Jaime Navarrete, kidnapped for the first time in 2018 and sentenced to 24 years in prison, allegedly for having murdered a paramilitary, however was benefited from the controversial Amnesty Law, coming out on June 10, 2019.
However, that freedom was one of the shortest against a political prisoner, because on July 24 of the same year he was again captured and accused of the alleged crimes of possession of psychotropic drugs, other controlled substances and illegal possession of weapons.
He was sentenced to three and a half years in prison, which he already served on January 30, 2023, but is still in the prisons of the Nicaraguan dictatorship.
