The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (CourtIDH) ordered the State of Nicaragua to release 45 people detained during the socio-political crisis that the country is going through and whom non-governmental organizations identify as political prisoners.
The president of the Inter-American Court, Ricardo Pérez, read in an act broadcast on the internet a unanimous resolution of the court in which he accepts the provisional measures requested by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
Among the beneficiaries of the measures are Edward Enrique Lacayo, María Esperanza Sánchez, Karla Vanessa Escobar, Wilfredo Alejandro Brenes, Irving Isidro Larios, Róger Abel Reyes, José Antonio Peraza and Evelyn Pinto.
Nicaraguan human rights organizations denounced the arbitrary detention, solitary confinement, and exile imposed by the Daniel Ortega regime against family members of opponents and workers of the newspaper La Prensa, who were recently accused of various crimes after several days of being “kidnapped.”
The Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights, Cenidh, indicated that “they are innocent people, taken from their homes, turned into hostages or forced to flee; which is a cruel reality, the magnitude of which is not revealed by the published figures».
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These are 17 people who were accused of allegedly undermining national integrity, treason and false news, including five relatives of politically persecuted people, four media workers and four opponents with arrest warrants.
The defendant Javier Álvarez Zamora, who is being prosecuted in absentia, said from exile that the regime threatened to imprison his relatives if he did not turn himself in. The dictatorship decided to take it out on his wife and daughter, and other relatives who remained in legal limbo in the cells of “El Nuevo Chipote”, in Managua.
For Cenidh, public denunciation is not enough, which is why it urged the development of new defense mechanisms for human rights in Nicaragua.
For their part, the lawyers of the Nicaraguan Human Rights Collective Never Again described these accusations as “infamous” for “violating constitutional rights and guarantees in alleged hearings without the publicity established for criminal proceedings.”
The defenders repudiated, in particular, the accusation against 13 opponents and their relatives.
The expert in the administration of justice Yader Morazán revealed that the four priests, two seminarians and a layman from the diocese of Matagalpa, close to Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, were accused of the alleged crimes of conspiracy to undermine national integrity and spread news. false, to the detriment of the society and State of Nicaragua.
The priests were taken under “secrecy” to a preliminary hearing on September 22, before the Sandinista judge Nalia Nadezdha Úbeda Obando. But the charges remained unpublished until now.
Morazán also revealed that the prosecutor Manuel de Jesús Rugama is participating in the case, who, according to reports, is a former police officer and was in charge of previously accusing the Mulukukú priest.
This prosecutor asked the judge to declare the complex procedure because the Police are supposedly still “investigating.” The judge, for her part, decided to assign public defenders to the priests.
The new religious persecuted by the dictatorship are the priests Ramiro Tijerino, Sadiel Eugarrios, José Luis Díaz; deacon Rául Antonio Vega, seminarians Darvin Leiva and Melkin Centeno, and diocese cameraman Sergio Cárdenas Flores.
All of them were taken from the episcopal curia of Matagalpa on August 19, where they were held by the Police together with Monsignor Álvarez. Since then they have been held captive in “El Nuevo Chipote”, in Managua.
The regime’s spokeswoman, Rosario Murillo, lashed out at the Netherlands, accusing it of sustaining its “riches on blood, slavery, and crimes against humanity.”
Murillo attacked the European country for canceling the financing for the Regional Hospital project in the North Caribbean of Nicaragua, in 2018. The violent speech of the wife of Daniel Ortega is launched days after the Nicaraguan dictatorship broke diplomatic relations with that nation after accuse her of maintaining an “interfering” position.
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A report by the Nicaraguan Human Rights Collective Never Again recorded 150 cases of torture from 2019 to October 2022, perpetrated by the Daniel Ortega regime.
The document highlights the practice of “white torture” in the country’s prisons, in which political prisoners suffer isolation, solitary confinement, food shortages, the denial of receiving reading materials and the lack of regulation of family visits.
MEP Javier Nart insisted on his request to be able to visit Dora María Téllez in prison. In a letter sent to Irana Venerio Fernández, Nicaraguan ambassador to the European Union (EU), the parliamentarian asks Ortega’s delegate to convey to the dictator Daniel Ortega his desire to see the guerrilla commander and her other “heroic companions of struggle» imprisoned by the regime.
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The MEP declares himself “proud” of having been a participant in that fight against Somoza and having shared arms with Dora María Téllez, of whom he highlighted was Minister of Health and founder of the Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS), current Democratic Renovation Union (Unamos); and on this occasion, he asked the regime’s ambassador to inform the Nicaraguan authorities that “Dora Maria Téllez’s prison conditions correspond to the minimum standards of the so-called civilized international community.”
The Nicaraguan regime formalized the creation of the “Rubén Darío National Theater Law” that grants the director the rank of minister and leaves him under the control of the Executive.
The director will be appointed by the President of the Republic, and will have deputy directors who will be appointed by the director himself. The Law establishes that the theater may not be used for activities that, according to Daniel Ortega, “undermine the purpose for which it has been created”
