The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (I/A Court HR) gave way to the lawsuit filed by the Carrión family against the State of Nicaragua for the denial of justice in the case of the femicide against Dina Alexandra Carrion Gonzalez, committed in 2010.
On June 3, 2010, the lifeless body of Carrión González was found in the patio of his house, near the main entrance, with a bullet wound to the chest.
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The letter from the Secretariat of the Court, dated November 28, indicates that after receiving the brief dated November 4, by email, “by means of which the representatives forwarded the clarifications to the annexes to the brief of requests, arguments and evidence, as well as the sworn statement of the González Carrión family to benefit from the Victims Legal Assistance Fund, as required by the note from this Secretariat REF: CDH-9-2022/008 of October 26, 2022».
After the announcement of the lawsuit, the Inter-American Court gave the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo a period of two months to answer the lawsuit filed against him.
In this sense —the Court specifies— the term for the presentation of the answer will begin to be computed from the day after the sending of this communication.
The companions and representatives of the Carrión family are the Human Rights Collective Nicaragua Never, the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh), in turn, accompanied by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
The State left the crime in impunity
Given this, the human rights defender Gonzalo Carrión explained to Article 66 that what the Inter-American Court will do is open a trial hearing, because the Nicaraguan State has denied justice for the femicide of Dina Carrión.
«The State of Nicaragua has left him in impunity based on the story that Dina —Carrión— had committed suicide, protected by a terrible and irresponsible investigation that she carried out to mislead a femicide and internally the family was denied their right to do justice,” added lawyer Carrión.
For her part, Aída Carrión, Dina Alexandra’s sister, expressed that as a family they received the news from the Inter-American Court with joy and enthusiasm. «We feel very positive; We thank God for this process that is taking place in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, after having gone through the IACHR”.
Aída Carrión added that this November 29 her sister Dina Alexandra would be turning 49 years old. “This is a balm for our family because we as believers —in God— think that all this that has happened in Dina’s case has been “Godsidence” non-coincidence, since all the processes that have been carried out in the inter-American route have coincided either on the day of his death or on the day of his birthday.”
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Dina Carrión’s family has blamed the Daniel Ortega regime for ending the investigations and acting with impunity to protect Carrión’s alleged murderer, named Juan Carlos Siles, who was the only person who accompanied the victim while she was murdered, according to the account documented in the testimonies presented.
However, Aída Carrión said that the culmination of “so many years of anguish and impotence” is coming to an end. As of tomorrow —Tuesday— the State has two months to answer all the annexes and the evidence that was submitted to the Inter-American Court,” she concluded.
After the death of Dina Alexandra Carrión, her family has started an “ordeal” to demand an impartial investigation and justice against the alleged femicide. In the years leading up to 2018, her parents and her siblings were on the streets in every mobilization they could to show the portrait of the deceased and demand that they go to the last consequences. Her father, Humberto Carrión, died without obtaining justice.
