Justice at the service of the Nicaraguan regime sentenced the political prisoners on Monday Miguel Flores Y Mildred Lightningmembers of the Nicaraguan University Alliance (AUN), to ten and eight years in prison, respectively.
In addition, under the same cause, the dictatorship sentenced Hilfrem Saborío to 10 years in prison, who was arrested along with the leaders of AUN on November 1st. The three young men were deprived of their freedom during a requisition made by the Nicaraguan Army in the vicinity of the Sapoá River, in Cárdenas, in the department of Rivas.
The Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh) reported on January 30 that Judge Félix Ernesto Salmerón, of the Fifth Criminal District Court of Managua, also sentenced the hostages of the dictatorship to 650 days finewhich are equivalent to more than 41,600 cordobas and ordered the confiscation of the objects seized at the time of the arrest.
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The three prisoners of conscience were found guilty and sentenced for the alleged crimes of conspiracy to undermine national integrity and propagation of false news, two legal instruments used to repress, imprison, and silence dissident voices and critics of the regime.
“From Cenidh we repudiate these unjust sentences, we demand that the Ortega Murillo regime immediately release the young members of AUN and all the political prisoners in Nicaragua,” the agency demanded in its Twitter account. Twitter.
In addition, the entity warned that “violations of the guarantees of due process are increasing, the defenselessness of prisoners of conscience is total, the regime does not want to give a copy of the sentences to defense lawyers, which makes appeals difficult because they have to work from memory».
Mildred Rayo, Miguel Flores and Hilfrem Saborío faced off on Wednesday, January 25, against a trial riddled with “illegalities.” The new hostages of the dictatorship remain confined in the cells of District Three of the Police in Managua.
The three young men join Ortega’s list of political prisoners, which amounts to more than 230 opponents who remain locked up in the different prisons of the country.
