Nicaragua: Miguel Mora, a journalist who aspired to the presidency, is sentenced to 13 years

The journalist Miguel Mora, who aspired to the Presidency of Nicaragua by the opposition before being imprisoned last June, he was sentenced this Wednesday to 13 years in prison for the crime of conspiring to undermine national integrity, reported his lawyer, Gerardo González Riega.

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Mora is the founder, owner and former director of the television channel 100% Noticias, closed by the President’s government Daniel Ortega in the context of the sociopolitical crisis that the country has been experiencing since April 2018, and which is now broadcast on a digital platform.

The journalist and former presidential candidate for the opposition was found guilty last Friday of the crime of conspiracy against national integrity, according to his wife and also a communicator Verónica Chávez, who accompanied him during the trial, and this Wednesday they handed down the conviction.

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Mora was found guilty by Judge Nadia Camila Tardencilla Rodríguez, in a trial held behind closed doors in El Chipote, a prison located in the Directorate of Judicial Assistance of the National Police, in Managua, as part of a series of trials against leaders opponents.

The journalist, who had announced his intentions to run for the presidency of Nicaragua for the opposition Democratic Restoration Party (PRD), which the Supreme Electoral Council, controlled by the Sandinistas, stripped of its legal personality, was imprisoned for six months, between December 2018 and June 2019.

On that occasion he was accused of “fostering and inciting hatred and violence” and “provocation, proposal and conspiracy to commit terrorist acts” in the framework of the popular revolt, described as an attempted coup by the Executive, and released for an amnesty.

He was arrested again on June 20, 2021 to be investigated for alleged treason against the country, and charged with the crime of conspiracy by the Public Ministry on September 1.

TEN OPPONENTS HAVE BEEN FOUND GUILTY

Humanitarian organizations such as the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh) have described as “judicial farce” and “new torture sessions” the series of trials that are being carried out on Nicaraguan opponents, of which ten have been found guilty. for the crime of conspiracy.

The Nicaraguan Justice has found guilty for the crime of conspiring to undermine national integrity, in addition to Mora, and in that order, the activists Yader Parajón and Yaser Mahumar Vado, and the opposition leader Ana Margarita Vigil.

Also to the former dissident Sandinista guerrilla Dora María Téllez, who was Ortega’s partner in the struggle against the Anastasio Somoza Debayle dictatorship, and to the student leader Lesther Alemán, who rebuked the president during the start of a failed national dialogue almost four years ago, where He ordered him to surrender.

Likewise, the former first lady María Fernanda Flores Lanzas, wife of former president Arnoldo Alemán (1997-2002) and who has been under house arrest since June 21.

In addition, the opposition leader Suyen Barahona, sports writer Miguel Mendoza, and former Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Francisco Aguirre Sacasa.

According to the Public Ministry, which had announced that the trials would be oral and public, opponents are being tried for having violated the Political Constitution, the Law for the Defense of the People’s Rights to Independence, Sovereignty and Self-Determination for Peace, the Law of sovereign security and the Criminal Code of Nicaragua.

Among the defendants are the seven opposition leaders who announced their intentions to run for the Presidency in the elections in which Ortega was re-elected for a fifth term, fourth consecutive and second with his wife, Rosario Murillo, as vice president, with their main contenders in prison or in exile.

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Source: Elcomercio

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