of Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IDH Court) Nicaraguan regime Regarding the forced disappearance of a retired colonel Jose Ramon Silva Reyeswas arrested in 1983 by officers of the Directorate General of State Security (DGSE).
According to the judgment, Silva Reyes was deceived into leaving the Guatemalan embassy in Managua on October 30, 1983, within the framework of Operation DGSE, and was deprived of his liberty.
The court argued that since that moment, Silva Reyes has been missing and that Nicaragua has not provided any information about his whereabouts, limiting itself to claiming that the colonel fled from the embassy without any official record of his arrest or release. The court held that arrest it happened without a court order And then secret conditionsconfigure arbitrary deprivation of liberty.
According to the complaint filed by Inter-American Commission on Human Rights According to the (IACHR), the case dates back to 1979, when Silva Reyes, a former National Guard officer, applied for political asylum with his family at the Guatemalan embassy after the victory of the Sandinista revolution. During his period of exile, he repeatedly requested safe passage, but without success.
The court is Silva Reyes at risk of violence and execution In the context of a crackdown on former National Guardsmen that led to violations of the right to life and personal integrity. The document further states that the administration was aware of the incidents since at least 1990, but failed in its duty to investigate and search for victims.
This judgment establishes that the state’s lack of action and lack of actual action constitutes a violation of judicial guarantees, judicial protection, and the right of families to know the truth. The IACHR highlighted the deep and lasting emotional impact on families who have suffered suffering, prejudice and insecurity for more than 40 years.
The Organization of the Americas said to the administration, Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo some implementations repair measures. In it he ordered the start Search now of Jose Ramon Silva ReyesIn addition to realizing criminal investigation The goal is to fully unravel the events that occurred, identify all those responsible and participants, and proceed with the prosecution and ultimate punishment of the retired colonel’s enforced disappearance.
It is worth remembering that the Inter-American Court declared that Nicaragua: despise He was convicted in 2022 of failing to respect interim measures for the release and protection of dissidents imprisoned under the Nicaraguan regime. Since then, Nicaragua has refused to comply with the court’s order or send a representative to the hearing.
In January, magistrates also accused the Sandinista government of: Nicaragua for the lack of integrity in the electoral process; 2011 and the abuse of state institutions to ensure the re-election of dictators. Daniel Ortega.
Under the Notification Act, the Chief Justice of the Inter-American Court: Nancy Hernandezsaid that the lack of electoral guarantees facilitated the perpetuation of presidential power, and that supreme court like him supreme electoral council They acted in a biased manner without providing effective judicial tools to review allegations of wrongdoing.
The judgment determined that the dictatorship had violated the political rights, judicial guarantees, and judicial protection of the people. Fabio Gadea MantillaAs a presidential candidate in 2011, he denounced multiple abnormalities, including the unconstitutionality of redistricting.
Judge Hernández explained that the Supreme Court’s resolution invalidated constitutional provisions that explicitly prohibited the president from being re-elected, both at the constitutional and plenary level. These decisions, he declared, were intended to “give legitimacy” to the approval of Ortega’s new nomination.
(according to information from EFE)
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