The Mechanism for the Recognition of Political Prisoners demands the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo the immediate release of the prisoner Edder Munozwho is part of the group of 35 opponents who are still locked up in the cells of the Granada penitentiary.
This is the third time that the opposition leader has been jailed under the Ortega regime. In November 2018, he was accused of terrorism. He was released on May 20, 2019; however, on September 22 of the same year he was captured again, being released hours later. The third and last occasion was on November 23, 2021.
On this occasion, Muñoz was attributed the alleged crimes of drug, psychotropic and other controlled substance trafficking; the same accusation that has been made to other political prisoners who have been recaptured.
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He Mechanism He assured that the prisoner of conscience faced “a trial with manifest violations of due process.” The Ortega justice sentenced him to eight years and six months in jail plus 800 days fine.
In addition, the agency highlighted that the opponent has several health problems such as “high blood pressure, constant headaches, vision problems, among others.”
Ortega’s hostage remains incarcerated in the Granada Penitentiary System, known as “La Granja”. In the prison, Edder Muñoz has been the victim of multiple beatings by the officers. The family of the political prisoner fears for his life.
The opponent was not included in the group of 222 Nicaraguans who were released and exiled from the country, who were also stripped of their nationality by the dictatorship for being “traitors to the homeland.”
The group sent out of the country, which represents more than 80% of those detained by the regime, includes candidates for the Presidency of Nicaragua, journalists, human rights defenders and activists. The regime had accused most of the “deportees” of “treason and undermining the defense, sovereignty and self-determination for peace.”
The Mechanism for the Recognition of Political Prisoners continues to demand that the Ortega regime release the 35 political prisoners who are still languishing in Nicaraguan jails.
