Nicaragua withdraws the nationality of another 94 Nicaraguans accused of "treason against the homeland"

MADRID, 16 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Nicaragua has withdrawn the nationality of 94 Nicaraguans accused by the Prosecutor's Office of committing the crime of "treason against the homeland", as ruled this Wednesday by the Court of Appeals of Managua (TAM).

Citizens, among whom are journalists, activists, politicians, religious or human rights defenders, have been declared "fugitives from Justice" and all their assets and companies will be confiscated, which will become in the hands of the State, according to reported '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, has read the resolutions in which accessory penalties of absolute and special disqualification from holding public office in perpetuity have also been imposed, as well as the loss of their citizen rights, as reported by 'Confidencial '.

According to the magistrate, the 94 Nicaraguans were charged by the Public Ministry for the alleged crimes of conspiracy to undermine national integrity, in addition to the alleged spread 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.