CITIZENS FORCED TO FALSE IN CLANDESTINE TRIAL AGAINST NICARAGUAN BISHOP

InfoMED News Press.-Months after Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, Bishop of the diocese of Matagalpa, faces house arrest, groups that defend human rights express their concern about the use of force to subdue those who do not incriminate the bishop.

Since Monsignor's deprivation of liberty, an order carried out by the National Police of the current regime of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, charges have been filed against the cleric and five other priests and three seminarians, who are accused of treason and destabilizing the structure of the current government.

Since last Tuesday, January 10, Monsignor Álvarez Lago, has held trial sessions against him where a series of irregularities have been presented that violate the local constitution itself. From the deprivation of liberty without an order through the assignment of a defense attorney, who has the tools to defend him, there is no public or oral trial until the presentation of real evidence against him, for this and other failures in the trial it is cataloged to this act as a clandestine trial.

After being declared this Wednesday, January 18, as responsible for conspiracy and lies, towards the government regime, different organizations announce to the public light, names of several Nicaraguans who accuse the Ortega government of having subjected them and threatened to frame the bishop.

International experts in Human Rights estimate that those who have testified against the cleric could in the future be sentenced for violating the Central American country's own penal code, an action that would sentence them to several years in prison.

Photo Managu Judicial Complex