The political prisoner Yubrank Suazo has accumulated seven months in the Jorge Navarro Penitentiary System, known as “La Modelo” in Tipitapa, by order of the Ortega-Murillo regime.
This is the second time (the first was on September 10, 2018) that the student leader is locked up in the men’s prison. In the early morning of May 18, 2022, the Ortega Police stormed his house in the San Juan neighborhood, in Masaya and detained him without any warrant.
Related news: Political prisoner Yubrank Suazo is sentenced to 10 years in prison
In this second “kidnapping”, the dissident remained captive in the torture cells of “El Nuevo Chipote” for 40 days and on June 30, the Daniel Ortega regime ordered him transferred to “La Modelo” and locked him up in the prison cell. Punishment 300, “El Infiernillo”.
Judge Ulisa Tapia Silva, judge of the Thirteenth Criminal Trial District, was in charge of sentencing Yubrank Suazo to 10 years in prison, for the crime of conspiracy to undermine national integrity and for false news, plus an 800-day fine, which is equivalent to 56 thousand 456 córdobas (1,570 dollars).
Suazo became known during the massive protests against President Daniel Ortega in 2018, when he read the proclamation that declared the city of Masaya (Pacific) “free territory of the dictator”, in reference to the Sandinista leader, who governs the Central American country next door. of his wife since 2007.
The opposition leader was sentenced despite the fact that “he is the beneficiary of precautionary measures granted by the IACHR (Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)”, indicated Cenidh, at the time of the sentence against the activist.
Suazo’s case is one of more than 190 Nicaraguans who, according to the IACHR, remain incarcerated as “political prisoners” in their country, including human rights defenders, feminists, journalists, peasant leaders, businessmen, academics, students, and others.
Suazo also belongs to the opposition organization Alianza Cívica, which has also spoken out against the situation to which the opponent has been subjected. The imprisonments occur in the context of the sociopolitical crisis that erupted in 2018, when massive protests against Ortega shook the Sandinista government.
