Some 136 political prisoners are currently in the prisons of Daniel Ortega’s regime.

The Mechanism for the Recognition of Political Prisoners in Nicaragua reported on Saturday that there are still at least 39 political prisoners in the country, after the release and deportation to the United States of 222 others last Thursday.

The organization, whose data is approved by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), has published a list of 39 people who, according to what he said, “They are not on the list (of 222) and continue to be arbitrarily detained.”

According to the list published by the Mechanism, the number of political prisoners detained in Nicaragua until Thursday’s expulsion was 261, a number higher than the 228 indicated by President Daniel Ortega and the 255 that the same observatory had previously documented.

Among the 39 political prisoners remaining in Nicaragua is Bishop Rolando Alvarezsentenced this Friday to more than 26 years in prison, after refusing to board the plane which took the group of 222 released to the United States.

April Victims Organization (OVA) leader Jaime Navarrete and lawyer José Manuel Urbina Lara, all Ortega critics, are also still imprisoned in Nicaragua.

In the list of 39 prisoners, there are priests, students, young people and workers, that in most cases they were not well-known figures at the time of their arrest and that they have been convicted in trials that organizations such as the Nicaraguan Collective for Human Rights Nunca Más and the Nicaraguan Center of Human Rights (IACHR) qualified as “null”. ”

Although some of the so-called political prisoners have been charged with common crimes, others have been convicted of “treason against the fatherland”For this reason, the Nicaraguan justice definitively disqualified them from exercising public functions, popularly elected positions and their rights as citizens were suspended for life.

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

With information from EFE

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