The opposition and youth leader Jason Noel Salazar Rugama He has been detained for 23 days in one of the cells of Police District III, in Managua, after he was kidnapped on April 4 by police officers at the service of the Daniel Ortega regime.
After almost a month of confinement, the University Movement April 19 (MU19A) He denounced, through his social networks, that the police entity continues not allowing his vice president to be seen by his relatives.
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He also noted that the Judge Ernesto Rodríguez he has in his possession the judicial file of the young opponent, without his family and defense being able to consult it physically, nor through the Nicarao System.
It had previously been known that Salazar was taken to a special hearing on April 5, one day after the arrest was reported.
Without specifying the cause or the alleged crimes against the youth leader, the MU19A limited itself, at the time, to reporting that its vice president was placed under the order of the Fifth Court of Hearings of Managua.
Article 66 learned that Salazar’s defense attorney filed a writ of habeas corpus on April 12 with the Office for the Reception and Distribution of Causes and Documents (ORIDICE), of the Managua judicial complex.
Dozens of new political prisoners
So far, the list of political prisoners exceeds 50, not including those detained in recent days, prior to the commemoration of the 2018 civic rebellion.
It was recently learned that the Ortega justice system accused the opposition Brenda Lee Baldelomar, originally from Chinandega, arrested on April 17, in one of the streets of the Roberto González neighborhood, in the city of western Nicaragua.
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According to the information published in the Nicarao System, the accusation, with number 007008-0RM4-2023-PN-, has been filed since April 24, in the Fourth Criminal Court of Managua, in charge of Judge Ana Maria Vado Miranda.
As has happened with other political cases, the alleged crime of which Baldelomar is accused is not detailed, it only states that the victim is “Nicaraguan society and the State of the Republic of Nicaragua.”
In the same indictment, presented by prosecutor Heydi Estela Ramírez Olivas, six other people are accused, identified as Arnoldo Horacio Guillén Monterrubio, Martha Lorena Centeno Marín, Hazel del Socorro Martínez Ulloa, Luis Enrique Obando Palma, Ivonne Patricia Espinoza Hurtado and Enner Herrera.
Arnoldo Guillén is an architect who was imprisoned when he was in a hotel in the city of Corinto, but four days later he was exiled to Mexico, because he also had Mexican citizenship.
For its part, the dictatorship of Ortega and Murillo continues with its repressive wave against the opposition and the Catholic Church of Nicaragua; even threatening to carry out more banishment of opponents.
