The Government of Pedro Sánchez offered Spanish nationality to the political prisoners who were stripped of their Nicaraguan nationality on February 9 by decision of the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
In an interview offered by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain, José Manuel Albares, the media outlet Servimedia reported that “the Government offers Spanish nationality to these 222 released prisoners, given the news that the process has begun to declare them stateless ».
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Regarding the process, Albares said that it will be “immediate, we are going to contact them. The offer is already, to put it in some way, in force, the procedure that will be used is that of granting Spanish nationality by naturalization letter, to prevent them from being stateless and it is a government decision that would take very little time.
The Nunca Más Nicaragua Human Rights Collective denounced that the dictatorship committed “legal atrocities” by banishing the 222 political prisoners to the United States, in addition to taking away their Nicaraguan nationality through a reform of the Political Constitution of the Republic.
According to the human rights organization, the political prisoners “are innocent, they were imprisoned and sentenced through trials that lacked legality by violating due process, both internal regulations and the criminal procedure code and the Political Constitution of Nicaragua, as well as international guarantees in the field of human rights”.
According to the Ortega justice, the 222 political prisoners were exiled for being considered “traitors to the homeland”, to justify their decision they reformed article 21 of the Political Constitution of the Republic, through the Legislative Branch, and ordered the Judiciary to issue an order “deportation” for violating Law 1055, Sovereignty Law.
The exiled political prisoners represent more than 80% of those detained by the regime. They were transferred from the different Nicaraguan prisons and the Judicial Assistance Directorate (DAJ) in Managua to the Augusto C. Sandino International Airport to board a flight to Washington where they arrived yesterday.
