(EFE).- The number of opponents and critics of the Government of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua who are in that country’s prisons rose from 78 to 89, the Mechanism for the Recognition of Political Prisoners reported this Saturday.
In Nicaragua’s prisons there are “89 people recognized as political prisoners to date: 16 women and 73 men (including 10 political prisoners detained before 2018),” this entity indicated in a report, whose data is endorsed by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
The number increased by 14.1% compared to the previous data, he said.
Last August, that organization registered 78 people as “political prisoners” in Nicaragua.
The source warned of a “new modality of holding trials, those that are held without the transfer of the accused person to the Judicial Complex
The source warned of a “new modality of holding trials, those that are held without the transfer of the accused person to the Judicial Complex, holding the hearings through video conferences, without the possibility of communication with the defense lawyer of their choice.” .
Among the 89 opponents or critics of Ortega who are still in prison is Monsignor Rolando José Álvarez Lagos, bishop of the diocese of Matagalpa and apostolic administrator of the diocese of Estelí, both in northern Nicaragua.
The bishop was sentenced to more than 26 years in prison for crimes considered “treason” after refusing to be expelled to the United States last February.
Also present are the journalist Víctor Ticay, collaborator of local television Channel 10, the released opposition member Olesia Auxiliadora Muñoz Pavón and the student leader Jasson Salazar.
Nicaragua has been going through a political and social crisis since April 2018, which has worsened after the controversial general elections of November 7, 2021, in which President Daniel Ortega was re-elected for a fifth term, with his main contenders in prison or in exile.
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