A group of at least 50 Nicaraguan priests He requested refuge in Honduras and Costa Rica before the repression of the Daniel Ortega regime, revealed the Honduran newspaper El Heraldo.
The media indicated that Bishop José Canales, of the Honduran diocese of Danlí, assured that the religious have expressed “a resounding rejection of situations of injustice and disrespect for human rights” by the regime.
Opposing the dictatorship has hit them “psychologically” due to the police sieges and harassment they have received from the regime, and for which they now seek refuge in neighboring countries.
The regime continues to deny defense to Monsignor Leonardo Urbinawho was sentenced to the maximum sentence for alleged sexual abuse in an arbitrary trial.
Lawyer Francisco Omar Gutierrez, who has been waiting for more than a month to be admitted as a private defender of the priest, was prevented from entering the country on Thursday, September 15, when he was returning to Managua after visiting his relatives in the United States. Immigration denied him entry without giving him any explanations.
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Since July, the relatives of Monsignor Urbina insisted that the lawyer be admitted as the priest’s defender, but the requests were not answered by the Sandinista judge Eden Aguilar.
The police arbitrarily detained the citizen Freddy Martin Porrasbrother of the opposition Dulce Porras, leader of the Renovating Democratic Union movement (Unamos) in the department of Carazo.
The member of Unamos, who is in exile, denounced to the national media that the agents showed up at her brother’s house without a court order, beat him and took him to the Jinotepe police station, where they were not given information about the reasons of the arrest.
Dulce Porras told the Confidencial media that it could be “a new pattern of the regime to capture the relatives” of the opponents who are in exile.
The Nicaraguan Human Rights Collective Never Again also denounced the arbitrary detention of Jeannine Horvilleur Cuadra63 years old, and Ana Carolina Alvarez Horvilleur43 years old, both of Nicaraguan and French nationality.
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The arrest occurred on the night of September 13 when police officers were looking for Javier Alberto Álvarez, 68, husband and father of the detainees, but not finding him, they imprisoned his relatives. According to the complaint, Javier Álvarez is in exile due to persecution by the regime. His son-in-law was also arrested. Felix Roiz.
In one week, 17 incidents related to human rights violations were reported in the country. According to the Blue and White Monitoring platform, from September 5 to 11, there was an increase in repression against priests, journalists and released political prisoners. The arrest of a territorial leader of a political organization was also reported.
Likewise, another hundred NGOs were canceled and territorial or social control increased, as in the case of students and university teaching staff who must report on their migratory movements.
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The collaborationist parties of the Ortega Murillo regime they had to resort to their old practices of usurping names to meet the quota of candidates established for the municipal elections scheduled for November 6.
Several Sandinista militants were identified in the preliminary list, whose names appear on the list of the so-called “zancudos” parties. They are even proposed in different political organizations at the same time, which constitutes an electoral crime, according to specialists.
Ivannia Álvarez, from the Urnas Abiertas electoral observatory, told Article 66 that several residents carried out their own inspection and recognized their relatives who have been out of the country for years on the lists. Oppositionists in exile also demanded an explanation from the political parties for appearing on the lists without authorization. The most affected area is Madriz and Ocotal.
