The Nicaraguan government of dictator Daniel Ortega has found Bishop Rolando Álvarez guilty of treason for his criticism of the regime, sentencing him to 26 years and 4 months in prison.
The Nicaraguan government of dictator Daniel Ortega has found Bishop Rolando Álvarez guilty of treason for his criticism of the regime, sentencing him to 26 years and 4 months in prison.
“April 13, 2049 is established as a provisional date for the completion of the sentence,” the magistrateOn Thursday, Álvarez refused to leave Nicaragua with 222 political prisoners who were also stripped of their citizenship andto Washington D.C. on a plane chartered by the U.S. government. “Let them go free, I will pay their sentence,” Álvarez said.
him to La Modelo prison, on the outskirts of Managua, known as one of the most brutal in Latin America, where beatings and torture are a daily affair. Álvarez has been a thorn in Ortega’s side, blaming him and his vice-president and wife Rosario Murillo for the increase in repression in the country.in 2018, referring to the Ortega regime’s use of weapons and irregular forces.
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