Nicaragua: opposition denounces house arrest of its candidate for vice-presidency
Former Miss Nicaragua Berenice Quezada and candidate for the country's vice-presidency for the opposition, July 28 in Managua.
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Berenice Quezada,
Nicaraguan
vice-presidential candidate
for the opposition Citizens Alliance for Freedom (CxL) party, has been under house arrest at her home since Tuesday evening by police, her party denounced.
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Berenice Quezada "
was informed by the judicial authorities and the public prosecutor that she was from that moment in house arrest without access to telephone communications and with migratory restrictions
" to leave the country, denounced Tuesday evening the left on his Twitter account.
Denunciamos que hoy a las 9:30 pm Berenice Quezada candidata a la Vicepresidencia por la Alianza CxL fue notificada en su casa por autoridades judiciales y del Ministerio Público acompañadas por la Policía, que quedaba from ese momento en retención domiciliaria. pic.twitter.com/QLqRdYkvni
- Alianza Ciudadanos por la Libertad (@CxLibertad) August 4, 2021
According to CxL, Ms. Quezada was informed that she was "
prohibited from standing in a popular election
" and that she should remain at her home in Managua, under police surveillance.
Neither the police nor the prosecution have yet confirmed this detention.
Sources in the group say his detention has been suspended.
The candidate's detention was also denounced on Twitter by the opposition coalition Union Nationale Bleu et Blanc (UNAB).
31 opponents arrested
CxL appointed Oscar Sobalvarro, a 68-year-old former counterrevolutionary, and Berenice Quezada, a former Miss Nicaragua with no political experience, as candidates for the presidency and vice-presidency respectively for the November 7 ballot.
A total of 31 opponents, including seven pre-presidential candidates, have been arrested since the beginning of June on charges of money laundering or treason under legislation adopted at the end of 2020, the political implications of which make it possible to reduce the opposition to silence.
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Berenice Quezada's detention came hours after a group of supporters of President Daniel Ortega's government accused her on Tuesday before the Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman (PDDH) of making an "implicit call for violence, to hatred ”.
They said they would ask the electoral authorities to ban him from running.
Monday, August 2, Berenice Quezada called for the release of “
political prisoners
” and called on the people to vote “
as they did in the street
” during the
anti-government demonstrations of 2018
.
The repression had left at least 328 dead and 2,000 wounded there, according to human rights organizations.
(
With AFP
)
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