Nine days after the arrest of musician Josué Monroya member of the Monroy y Surmenage gang, and the managers of Saxo Producciones, Xóchilt Tapia and Salvador Espinoza, the Police and the Prosecutor’s Office of the Ortega regime have not reported on his legal situation and the reasons for his kidnapping.
Sources linked to the musical bands assure that Monroy was deported to El Salvador, because the musician has dual nationality from that country. However, sources linked to the Salvadoran Migration Directorate confirmed to CONFIDENTIAL that, in its records, no income of the Nicaraguan citizen Josué Monroy Ortega appears.
Unofficially, sources close to the detained musicians said that they remain in the cells of the Judicial Assistance Directorate (DAJ), known as El Chipote, where they are kept in prison. about 30 political prisoners, sentenced by Ortega justice for “conspiracy to undermine national integrity” and “propagation of false news”, in trials considered illegal and carried out last March.
The musicians were arrested on Tuesday, April 12, after last April 2, they participated in a concert for the 15th anniversary of the Monroy y Surmenage band, an activity in which they allegedly criticized the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, through one of the songs performed.
On the day of the kidnapping, a relative of Monroy told CONFIDENTIAL, under the condition of anonymity, that the officers entered the house with violence and took his relative “without giving any reason” and “without informing which police station they would transfer him to.”
Within 48 hours
Two days after the arrest, Six police officers raided the singer’s house for the second timeand they took the musical instruments that remained in the home located in Altamira, in Managua.
A lawyer who requested anonymity for security reasons explained that the arrests of the musicians are illegal and arbitrary because those involved, in accordance with article 33 of the Political Constitution, have the right to know the reasons for their arrest and can communicate with their lawyers.
The law also guides that they must be presented before the competent judicial authority in a period not exceeding 48 hours, both to hear the accusation or, in compliance with the new reform to the Code of Criminal Procedure, that judicial detention be decreed for up to 90 days to investigate.
“So far none of that has happened,” says the specialist. It is still unknown if the relatives have already filed an appeal for habeas corpus
Contrary to the arrests registered against civic and political leaders, between May and November 2021, which the Prosecutor’s Office or the Police reported after a day of having kidnapped an opponent, the regime has remained completely hermetic with these kidnappings.
Deportations and immigration restriction
During the hunt on April 12, the regime also detained music producer Leonard Canals, director of La Anteala, who days later was deported to Costa Rica. He also expelled the Italian artist Emilia Arienti, who was offered 48 hours to leave the country.
This Wednesday, the digital media Divergentes revealed that migration authorities prevented the entry into Nicaragua of Carlos Luis Mejia Rodriguez, member and founder of the musical group La Cuneta Son Machín. The musician —son of the popular Nicaraguan singer-songwriter Carlos Mejía Godoy— was returning from the United States and during his stopover in El Salvador, he was informed that he could not enter his country.
His case is one of dozens of Nicaraguans who have been prevented by immigration authorities from entering the country, despite being citizens or not allowed to leave the national territory and confiscate your passport.
