Nicaragua’s Public Ministry indicted 17 opponents for the alleged crimes of conspiracy to undermine national integrity or spread false news.
Thirteen of them, as reported on Monday (3) by the Judiciary through a press release published on the official website El 19 digital, while the other four are employees of the newspaper La Prensa and include a reporter, according to information published by the newspaper.
“The Public Ministry indicted Freddy Martín Porras García, José David Gallo Torrez, José Javier Álvarez Argüello, Nicolás Palacios Ortiz, Hugo Ramón Rodríguez Flores, Ana Carolina Álvarez Horvilleur, Jeannine Horvilleur Cuadra, Félix Ernesto Roiz Sotomayor and Javier Alberto Álvarez for both crimes. , for whom he issued an arrest warrant.
In addition, for the crime of attacking national integrity, the Public Ministry indicted Adolfo Ramón García Ramírez, Gabriel Alfonso López del Carmen, Arnulfo José Somarriba Aguilar and Andrea Margarita del Carmen Ibarra, for whom, the latter, a detention order was also issued. .
According to the press release, “The Sixth Judge of the Criminal District of Managua, Rolando Salvador Sanarrusia Munguía, admitted on September 30 and October 1, 2022, the charges presented by the Public Ministry and ordered preventive detention, for the crimes of conspiracy. to undermine national integrity and/or propagate false news through information and communication technologies to the detriment of the Nicaraguan State and society”.
Journalist and lawyer William Roiz reported on his Facebook profile on October 2 that on September 13 the police took his son Félix Ernesto Roiz, his daughter-in-law Carolina Álvarez Horvilleur and his mother, Jeaninne Horvilleur, without a warrant in the Judicial Assistance Directorate, south of Managua.
“We haven’t seen them, we haven’t been able to communicate with them, we don’t know anything. I submitted a habeas corpus to the Court of Appeal according to the Law after 48 hours and it is today, September 26, said the Criminal Chamber Court 1, says they have no answer because the police did not give them any report”, said Roiz.
In turn, the newspaper La Prensa, in an informative note published on Tuesday (4), reported that, according to information from the judicial electronic system, the Public Ministry denounced four workers at the newspaper, for the alleged crime of forming a gang for national integrity, presenting the Nicaraguan State and Nicaraguan society as victims.
“The defendants, in addition to the two drivers, are a reporter and an administrative worker. For the latter two, it is known that the Public Ministry issued an arrest warrant,” he said.
In turn, the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh) through a statement published this Tuesday reported 17 people accused of undermining national integrity and spreading false news. “The victims are innocent people, taken from their homes, taken hostage or forced to flee,” the statement read.
The human rights organization added that “the regime destroyed the possibility of making use of procedural guarantees to formally defend human rights, the judiciary is not independent, the Human Rights Ombudsman is silent and becomes non-existent”.
Source: CNN Brasil
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