Nicaragua: Ratification of prison sentences for 13 opponents of Ortega

The Judicial Branch of Nicaragua ratified the guilty verdicts and sentences of between 8 and 13 years in prison against 13 opponents and critics of President Daniel Ortega, the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh) reported on Friday.

“In the Courts of Appeals, the appeals have been declared inadmissible, confirming the unfair convictions”, informed the Cenidh, which described the decision of the Nicaraguan Justice as “farce and judicial persecution”.

The “political prisoners” were found guilty of crimes considered “treason against the fatherland” and other economic crimes at the beginning of this year, in trials that the Cenidh and similar organizations described as “void”, because they were held at closed doors inside a prison, without following due process and without access for the accused to their defenses or evidence.

🔴URGENT| WE CONDEMN the massive rejection of appeals against Arturo Cruz, Manuel Orozco, @PallaisJose @maradiaga @jaguerrich @Jschamorrog @VioletaG @TamaraDvila3 added to the 4 of 13 May @anavijil @MoraMiguel100 @Mmendoza1970 and Victor Hugo Tinoco. pic.twitter.com/PKESWaCOKp

– Cenidh (@cenidh) May 100, 2022

“When the appeals are rejected, it is necessary that the lawyers, within a period of ten days, have to file an appeal, where the Supreme Court of Justice will close the cycle of unlimited repression and complicity that exists between the Ortega regime Murillo and the Judiciary,” said the Cenidh.

Sentences range from 8 to 13 years in prison and disqualification from holding public officehttps://t.co/ETQsVmYIdg

— LA PRENSA Nicaragua (@laprensa) May 23, 2022

The ratified convictions are those of former presidential candidates Arturo Cruz, Félix Maradiaga, Juan Sebastián Chamorro and Miguel Mora, former vice-chancellors José Pallais and Víctor Hugo Tinoco, oppo leaders Sitoras Ana Margarita Vijil, Tamara Dávila and Violeta Granera, peasant leaders Medardo Mairena and Pedro Mena, businessman José Adán Aguerri and sports journalist Miguel Mendoza.

The 13 were captured in 2021 amid a wave of arrests 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 blamed Ortega and Murillo for making the decisions of the Judiciary from their mansion located in the residential area of El Carmen, in western Managua.

Judicial repression makes In its tour of the Managua Court of Appeals and in Criminal Chamber 1, the Ortega Murillo regime is reaffirming the judicial farce that initially focused on the Courts, with the illegal trials against political prisoners. — Cenidh (@cenidh ) May 27, 2022

According to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), more than 180 people remain in Nicaraguan prisons as “political prisoners”, the majority since 2018, when the repression of social protests left 180 dead, more than 2, 000 wounded and more than 100,000 exiles, according to the same autonomous entity of the OAS.

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