Seven opposition figures to Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega were sentenced on Thursday to eight to thirteen years in prison for striking at “national integrity”, or “conspiracy”, a human rights group has said in a statement.
Student leader Lester Alleman, journalist and former presidential candidate Miguel Mora, and opposition leader Yasser Wado were each sentenced to 13 years in prison each, according to the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights.
The same court sentenced another opposition leader, Yader Parahon, to ten years in prison, as well as Ana Margarita Vihil, a former Sandinista figure.
Dora Maria Teges, a former chanter of the Sandinistas, and Maria Fernanda Flores, a former lawmaker and wife of former President Arnoldo Alemann (1997-2002), were each sentenced to eight years in prison.
Their trials were held behind closed doors earlier this month at El Chipote Prison in Managua, where most of the 46 dissidents arrested in 2021 are being held ahead of a landslide victory by Daniel Ortega, securing a fourth term in office. presidency.
Fifteen of his political opponents have already been found guilty of acting against national security or “conspiracy”, but were not immediately sentenced.
Lester Alleman, 24, is the leader of a student organization that had publicly demanded that Mr. Ortega resign during a Catholic-mediated dialogue between the government and political and social organizations involved in the 2018 uprising.
Miguel Mora, 53, was the director of the private television network 100% Noticias, which strongly denounced the suppression of the 2018 anti-government mobilizations, before being seized by the state that year.
Mr Mora announced his intention last year to run for president of Nicaragua with the Democratic Renaissance Party (PRD), one of the three main opposition parties in President Ortega, in the November 7 election, but his candidacy was canceled. the electoral court.
Ana Margarita Vihil is a member of the dissident Sandinista party UNAMOS.
Dora Maria Teges, 66, a former comrade in arms of the current head of state, joined the opposition after the split of the Sandinista movement. The historian is a founding member of the Renewal Sandinista Movement (MRS, center-left), which was later transformed into the Union for the Democratic Renaissance, UNAMOS.
SOURCE: ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ
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