The Judiciary of Nicaragua ratified The guilty verdicts and sentences of between 8 and 13 years in prison against a group of 13 opponents and critics of President Daniel Ortega, informed the newspaper. This Friday, the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh).
“In the Courts of Appeals, the appeals have been declared inadmissible, confirming the unfair convictions” the Cenidh, which qualified The decision of the Nicaraguan Justice of “farce and judicial persecution”.
The so-called “political prisoners” they had been found guilty of crimes considered “treason against the fatherland”; and other economic ones, at the beginning of this year, in trials that the Cenidh and similar organizations described as “null” because they were allegedly held outside the law, behind closed doors inside a prison, without follow due process, and without the accused having access to their defenses or evidence.
“When the appeals are rejected, it is imposed that the lawyers, within a term of ten days, have to file an appeal, where the Supreme Court of Justice will close the appeal. The cycle of repression and complicity without limits that exists between the Ortega Murillo regime and the Judicial Power” the Cenidh.
Convicts who have been confirmed His sentences are the former candidates for the Presidency Arturo Cruz, Félix Maradiaga, Juan Sebastián Chamorro and Miguel Mora, the former vice chancellors José; Pallais and Víctor Hugo Tinoco, the opposition leaders Ana Margarita Vijil, Tamara Dávila and Violeta Granera, the peasant leaders Medardo Mairena and Pedro Mena, the businessman José Adán Aguerri, and sports journalist Miguel Mendoza.
The 13 were captured in 2021, in the midst of a wave of arrests against opponents, critics of the Daniel Ortega government, and independent professionals, prior to the November 7 elections, in which Ortega was re-elected for a fifth term. , fourth in a row and second along with his wife, Rosario Murillo, as vice president, with his main contenders in prison.
The Cenidh Ortega and Murillo to make the decisions of the Judiciary from their mansion, located in the residential area of El Carmen, in western Managua.
“There is no doubt that the Judiciary is a shame, they have become ‘machotos’ obedient to the dictates of El Carmen. They do not analyze, they do not study the resources that are interposed, they only know how to confirm spurious sentences & rdquo ;, highlighted. the Cenidh.
According to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), more than 180 people remain in Nicaraguan jails as “political prisoners.”
The deprivation of liberty for political reasons, pointed out by humanitarian organizations, was accentuated. in 2018, when Nicaraguans came out en masse to protest against Ortega, and were reduced with armed attacks.
The IACHR assures that at least 355 people died in these protests. Ortega, who maintains that it was of a “failed coup”, has admitted on different occasions the death of 200 Nicaraguans.