The man who accused Daniel Ortega of raping his sister since she was 15 years old dies in jail

The Nicaraguan lawyer Santos Sebastián Flores Castillo, who denounced that the president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, allegedly sexually abused his sister since he was 15 years old, died in a prison where he had been held since 2013 in unknown circumstances, a humanitarian agency reported Thursday.

Flores Castillo, 52, died last Tuesday in a prison known as “The model”, The largest of Nicaragua and located about 25 kilometers north of Managua, indicated the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh), which received the information from the victim’s next of kin.

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El Cenidh, who accompanies the family in the case they raised against Ortega Before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), he demanded the Ministry of the Interior to initiate an exhaustive investigation to determine the causes of the death of Flores Castillo.

Cenidh representatives informed Efe that the man’s relatives are also trying to investigate the causes of his death.

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The Nicaraguan authorities have not yet referred to this complaint.

CONVICTED OF SEXUAL RAPE

Flores Castillo is brother of Elvia Junieth Flores Castillo, 32 years old, who, according to the complaint of the brothers and herself, was sexually abused by Ortega since I was 15 years old.

The brother of the alleged victim of Ortega He was accused and sentenced to 15 years in prison for the crime of rape against an employee of the Judicial Power, charges that were always denied by the convict and his family.

Santos Sebastián Flores Castillo accused Daniel Ortega of raping his sister since she was 15 years old.

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Before being imprisoned on June 17, 2013, the lawyer had been trying for several years to get his sister’s case to emerge through human rights organizations.

The case became relevant in November 2017 when his relatives decided to report from Miami, where they went into exile, alleged mistreatment and torture to which the inmate was subjected in prison.

Back then Elvia junieth, now a mother of two and unrelated to Ortega, gave a press conference by phone in 2017, in which he stated: “I am the main victim of abuse of power by the President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega Saavedra; It has destroyed my family, it has destroyed me ”.

CASE BEFORE IACHR AND OMCT

That same year, the IACHR learned the details of the now deceased’s case and began its own investigations, which lasted four years, until he was admitted on September 7.

Since then, the Secretary General of the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT), Gerald Staberock, had contacted the Ortega government to express his “concern” about the conditions of Flores Castillo in prison, which included complaints about “Serious mistreatment, isolation, and restriction of visits”, as well as lack of access to health and human rights defenders.

Before Elvia Junieth’s case was known, Ortega had already been the subject of a similar complaint by his stepdaughter, Zoilamérica Ortega Murillo, daughter of Vice President Rosario Murillo.

Narváez’s case did not progress in the Judicial Branch, controlled by the Sandinistas, and the stepdaughter ended up opting for exile in Costa Rica.

Flores Castillo’s family always maintained that their case was not political, but humanitarian, however, they held Ortega responsible for what happened to Santos Sebastián in prison.

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