Nicaragua revoked the citizenship of another 94 people

Authorities from Nicaragua The writers were stripped of their Nicaraguan citizenship this Wednesday Sergio Ramirez and Gioconda Belliaccording to the auxiliary bishop of Managua, Silvio Báez, and the former commander of the revolution, Luis Carrión.

And a veteran defender of human rights Vilma Nunezformer chancellor Norman calderato a former Sandinista judge Rafael Solisthe former ambassador of Nicaragua to the OAS Arthur McFieldsto a journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro and others 85 Nicaraguans accused of crimes he considers “betrayal”according to the judgment of the Court of Appeals of Managua.

The resolution, read by the presiding magistrate of the Court of Appeal in Managua, Ernesto Rodríguez, also orders “the immobilization and confiscation in favor of the State of Nicaragua of all real estate and companies that the defendants have registered in their favor, either personally or as legal entities or companies in in which they participate as partners, to be responsible for committed criminal acts”.

THEY DECLARED THEM FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE

Likewise, the defendants were declared fugitives from justice.

“Keep in mind (94) the accused traitors to the country for whom additional sentences have been imposed are absolute and special disqualifications from holding public office, holding public office in the name or in the service of the State of Nicaragua, as well as holding positions of popular election and the loss of their civil rights forever, respectively,” the judgment states.

Judge Rodríguez said 94 Nicaraguans were charged by the State Crimes Department with conspiracy to undermine national integrity in actual competition with the crime of spreading fake news through information and communication technology. , and all to the detriment of the Nicaraguan state and society.

Managua’s appellate judges explained that they made the decision based on the “Special Law Regulating the Loss of Nicaraguan Citizenship,” which was expressly approved last Thursday, as well as LThe Law on the Defense of the People’s Right to Independence, Sovereignty and Self-Determination for Peacepublished on December 22, 2020.

The judicial authorities informed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of the Interior and the Supreme Electoral Council about this verdict.

94. DEPRIVED OF THEIR NATIONALITY

In addition to writers Sergio Ramírez and Gioconda Belli and Bishop Silvio Báez, other Nicaraguans who were stripped of their citizenship are former revolutionary commander Luis Carrión, veteran human rights defender Vilma Núñez, former foreign minister Norman Caldera, and former Sandinista judge Rafael Solis.

Also former Nicaraguan ambassador to the OAS Arturo McFields, former vice chancellor Salvador Stadthagen, academic Ernesto Medina, former education minister Humberto Belli, researcher Elvira Cuadra, opponents Kitty Monterrey, Eliseo Núñez, Enrique Sáenz and Edipsia Dubón.

In addition, journalists Carlos Fernando Chamorro, Sofía Montenegro, Luis Manuel Chavarría Galeano, Jennyfer Ortiz, Lucía Pineda Ubau, Patricia Orozco, Camilo de Castro and the correspondent of the Spanish newspaper El País Wilfredo Miranda.

The list includes two former associates of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega: Julio López and Mónica Baltodano; among others, defenders of human rights, priests, ecologists, Sandinista dissidents, students, businessmen, traders.

Nicaragua since April 2018, it has been going through a political and social crisis, which worsened after the controversial general elections on November 7, 2021, in which Ortega was re-elected for a fifth term, the fourth in a row and the second together with his wife, Rosario Murillo, as vice president, with their main competitors in prison or in exile.