Nicaragua has withdrawn the nationality of 94 Nicaraguans accused by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of committing the crime of «treason», the Court of Appeals of Managua (TAM) ruled on Wednesday.
The citizens, among which are journalists, activists, politicians, religious or Human Rights defenders, have been declared «fugitives from Justice» and all their assets and companies will be confiscated and will be transferred to the hands of the State, as reported by ‘La Prensa’.
The list includes the director of the newspaper ‘Confidencial’, Carlos Fernando Chamorro; the auxiliary bishop of Managua, Silvio Báez; the president of the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights, Vilma Núñez; the writers Sergio Ramírez and Gioconda Belli; the ex-guerrilla Mónica Baltodano or the ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs Norman Caldera.
The president of the TAM, Ernesto Rodríguez Mejía, read the resolutions which also imposed accessory penalties of absolute and special disqualification from holding public office for life, as well as the loss of their citizenship rights, as reported by ‘Confidencial’.
According to the magistrate, the 94 Nicaraguans were charged by the Public Prosecutor’s Office for the alleged crimes of conspiracy to commit undermining national integrity, as well as for the alleged propagation of false news, all to the detriment of the State of Nicaragua.
The stripping of the nationality of almost one hundred citizens takes place after Nicaragua deported 222 prisoners to the United States, whom it also left stateless, bringing to 316 the number of Nicaraguans who have lost their citizenship in less than a week.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
