In the 76-page brief, the judge Ariel Lijo calls for the capture of the president and the rest of the accused to be investigated for “serious violations of the human rights attributed to him.”
According to the evidence gathered in the file opened in August by the complaint of lawyers Diego Pirota and Darío Richarte, it is about human rights violations “in which high authorities of the Republic of Nicaragua would have participated.”
Ariel Lijo explained the request for the arrest of Daniel Ortega
Judge Lijo explained in writing the grounds for ordering his capture and stressed that there was a ““The strategic plan of repression deployed in Nicaragua involved all levels of the political and judicial power of the State.”.
Furthermore, he warned that “the requests for international cooperation made by this court were not answered.”
The case documented persecutions for religious reasons, of aboriginal communities, arrests of journalists.
When detailing the accusation, the magistrate stated that he will be accused of “having carried out a systematic and widespread plan of violent repression against the civilian population of the Republic of Nicaragua, whose object was the deterrence of social demonstrations and the persecution of dissident political sectors“.
In that sense, he considered that to carry out this plan “they used the structure of the state apparatus, relying on the institutional roles that each of the interveners had.”
Within the framework of this plan “arbitrary imprisonments, murders, acts of torture, forced disappearance of people, forced transfer of the population, deportations, media censorship, deprivation of medical care, suppression of qualifying professional registrations, persecution for political reasons and religious, cancellation of legal personality and removal of nationality”.
Finally, Lijo reiterated that a “generalized and systematic plan” was set up that was “structured in different stages, within the framework of which the aforementioned behaviors arose” and that It began between April and June 2018, with the repression of various social protests in Nicaragua.
Source: Ambito
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