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Olesia Muñoz: “They Invented a Facebook Post to Accuse Me”

Muñoz was a political prisoner twice. She was accused of cybercrimes in a setup that involved the bishop of Granada, Monsignor Solorzano.

“I’m fine. Sad, angry, emotional, but okay,” she told me. Then her voice broke into intense crying. “They still have other women locked up.”

Once again after a large prisoner release/banishment, ten political prisoners from before the 2018 protests and others remain in jail.

“We thought this would never end, but God heard us,” says one of the 135 exiles. Former prisoners confirm physical and psychological torture.

“Nicaragua’s release of journalists Víctor Ticay and Fabiola Tercero brings us relief, but they should never have been imprisoned…”

Valdrack Jaentschke is one of the regime’s most loyal figures within the diplomatic corps. Dennis Moncada leaves the post for “health reasons”

The former political prisoners were welcomed in Guatemala, the United States reported. The Ortega-Murillo regime remains silent.

A new change to the Criminal Code will grant the police “superpowers” to search and seize assets, with court permission an afterthought.

The dictatorship’s “Partnership Alliance” model means going from non-government organizations to para-state agencies.

“We reject the repression directed against citizen protests and the regime’s attempts to falsify the election results,” they affirm.