The measure was taken almost a week after the country’s expulsion of 222 political prisoners and after the conviction of a bishop to twenty-six years in prison.
by Angeline Montoya
It is a “jump into the vacuum of authoritarian radicalization” of Daniel Ortega. Carlos Fernando Chamorro, director of the confidential online media, has no more words strong enough to qualify the last measure of the regime of President Nicaraguan. The journalist, who is in exile in Costa Rica since 2021, is one of 94 opponents who have just been withdrawn their nationality, their civic rights and their property.
The measure was announced on Wednesday February 15 by the president of the Managua Court of Appeal, Ernesto Rodriguez Mejia. “The accused have carried out and continue to perpetrate criminal acts to the detriment of peace, sovereignty, independence and self -determination of the Nicaraguan people, by encouraging the destabilization of the country, by promoting economic, commercial blockade and financial, according to the magistrate. For these reasons, they cannot be considered as Nicaraguan citizens. “
Treaties of “fleeing criminals” and “traitors to the fatherland”, the “accused”, who were nevertheless the subject of any trials and had not been indicted before that, are Also “subject to the perpetuity prohibition to exercise public functions” and elective mandates. Their property was “confiscated in favor of the Nicaraguan State”.
The measure was decreed six days after the release and expulsion to Washington, on February 10, of 222 political prisoners, also fallen from their nationality and their rights, and after the twenty-six years of twenty-six years of Prison of Bishop Rolando Alvarez, the next day.
“A conviction without trial”
Among the people affected by this Wednesday, writers Sergio Ramirez and Gioconda Belli, Bishop Silvio Baez, activist Vilma Nuñez, President of the Nicaraguan Human Rights Center (Cenidh), political figures, academicians , ex-Guerileros Sandinistes, religious, journalists, intellectuals and former civil servants. Almost all had already left the country in recent months.
“From our evaluation, out of the 94, there are only two or three which are still in Nicaragua, specifies in the world Jima Reyes, director for the Americas of the International Human Rights Federation (FIDH) . This resolution is a legal UFO because it is a conviction without trial. “
But the fate of Vilma Nuñez worries. Lawyer, activist of the Sandinianist National Liberation Front (FSLN) fighting against the dictatorship of the Somoza family – she had been arrested in 1979 and brutally tortured -, then became an opponent of the Daniel Ortega regime, in power from 1979 to 1990 and 2007 to today, she is one of the few to have wanted to leave Nicaragua.
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