Cristiana Chamorro, leader of the opposition arrested by the Nicaraguan regime, was held incommunicado for four days and without access to her lawyers

Cristiana Chamorro, leader of the Nicaraguan opposition, celebrates this Sunday the fourth day of house arrest, during which remains in secrecy and without access to his lawyers. Orieta Benavides, one of its legal representatives, indicated that it is “practically in a kidnapping” by the regime of Daniel Ortega.

“They have not yet allowed me to see Cristiana (…) House arrest, as established in legislation, is not what happens with Cristiana in practice, it should not be detained incommunicado, she should not be deprived of communicating with their families and the defense, should not have completely cut off all channels of communication and access, it is a situation that escapes the legal framework and which in fact practically a kidnapping “Benavides told the local newspaper The press.

He denounced that he still did not have access to the judicial file in the courts of Managua and also stressed that the authorizations to see his client “are somewhat discretionary”: “There is no judicial function. This case does not comply with any rule of law ”.

Despite being held incommunicado, Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Barrios, the older brother of Cristiana, former national deputy (2007-2017) and former city councilor of Managua (2004-2006), said the opposition leader “kept his head held high”.

“Until yesterday, her children were allowed to visit her, Antonio Ignacio and Cristiana María, she (Cristiana) still with her head held high”, he claimed.

The director of the late Violeta Barrios de Chamorro Foundation for Reconciliation and Democracy (FVBCH) He has been under house arrest since June 2 by a decree of the Judicial Power at the request of the Public Prosecutor., who is investigating for having committed the offenses of “abusive management and ideological lying in competition with the laundering of money, property and assets” by the prosecution.

Chamorro, who called President Daniel Ortega a “dictator” and said he was “horrified” at the idea of ​​losing power, announced in May that he would register as a presidential candidate for the elections on November 7. in which the sovereign seeks his third consecutive re-election.

Pedro Joaquín, also the brother of the 2021 Ortega y Gasset award winner Carlos Fernando Chamorro Barrios, who suffered two confiscations by the regime, insisted that he speaks exclusively in his personal capacity and said that Cristiana is “in good health, they treated her well”, although he mentioned that he felt “very concerned about the situation she is going through”.

The Nicaraguan Public Prosecutor’s Office accused Chamorro – daughter of former President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro (1990-1997) – for the offenses of abusive management, ideological lying, both in real competition with the laundering of money, property and d ‘assets.

The Sandinista regime’s prosecution also called for the disqualification of Chamorro Barrios, the opposition figure most likely to win the November elections, in which Ortega is seeking another re-election, according to a poll by CID Gallup. “Not to be in full enjoyment of their civil and political rights because they are in criminal proceedings.”

In addition, the public prosecutor proceeded with the request for provisional immigration detention measures in order, as indicated, to prevent him from evading the process of investigation carried out against him. More, He called for Chamorro Barrios to be banned from attending certain meetings and venues, and from communicating with people related to the events under investigation.

The persecution of the Nicaraguan regime continued in the final hours after the arrest of another opposition candidate: Arturo cruz, who was arrested at Augusto C. Sandino International Airport in Managua on Saturday as he returned from a tour of the United States.

Cruz, the Citizen Alliance opposition presidential candidate, arrived in Managua at 9 a.m. local time (3 p.m. GMT), but three hours later he was still inside the airport and not answering calls or messages. on his cell phone.

For their part, the opposition candidates Felix Maradiaga Yes Juan Sebastian Chamorro they denounced having been informed that they had “a house in prison until further notice”, although they have no charges against them.

Other presidential candidates, such as the peasant Medardo Mairena, the Afro-descendant George Herníquez Cayasso, the journalist Miguel Mora, the doctor Maria Eugenie Alonso, and the former leader against Louis flies they denounced being the object of persecution and harassment by the national police.

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