Dora María Téllez, former Sandinista guerrilla, convicted of "conspiracy"

• Nicaragua Daniel Ortega begins the judicial parody against political prisoners

Sandinismo has condemned its own history.

The judge of the fourth criminal district has ruled that

the mythical commander two during the fight against the Somoza dictatorship and former Minister of Health in the early days of the revolution, is guilty of "conspiracy to undermine national integrity" .

The prosecutor demands for the historian and feminist activist a firm sentence of 15 years in prison, of which she has already served

in a cell of the sinister El Nuevo Chipote prison.

They also intend to disqualify her for public office.

The judicial parody ordered by

is made up of a chain of express trials, carried out between multiple arbitrariness and procedural violations inside the prison.

A sentence for "stateless" against an irreducible guerrilla, the same one who

, the one who commanded 3,000 militiamen and the one who later dedicated his life to fighting for the Nicaraguan people.

Since leaving the Sandinista ranks, along with other prominent revolutionaries, such as the writer Sergio Ramírez, the priest Ernesto Cardenal or the poet Gioconda Belli, Téllez has led a firm dissidence against the abuses of the Ortega and Murillo clan.

At the head of the Unamos movement, the new version of the Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS), Dora María never took a step back, she even confronted the commando of government agents who, with their faces covered, arrested her at her home on the 13th of June.

They beat her severely to take her into custody.

With her was

the former president of the MRS, sentenced a few hours before her friend for the same crimes and in the same judicial farce.

When the authorities gave Vijil the record of her trial, the activist signed "political prisoner."

ill-treatment in prison

Both women endowed with great intellectual brilliance, in Nicaragua the animosity that the presidential couple gives them is well known, especially against Commander Two, who did not hesitate to confront Ortega within the Sandinista leadership.

Against Téllez and against Vijil, as well as against Suyén Barahona and Tamara Dávila, the niece of the former president of the MRS, the ill-treatment continued in prison, with constant interrogations, poor food, and they were even denied warm clothes.

"An

was held against my daughter, in which she was convicted of crimes she did not commit. The regime convicted her for her work defending human rights, for dreaming and working for a Nicaragua in freedom. and with justice," complained Pinita Gurdián, Vijil's mother.

Between 30 and 40 political prisoners will be tried in the current onslaught of the revolution,

which has also sentenced in recent hours the student leader Lesther Alemán, known for confronting Daniel Ortega during the 2018 political negotiations. The crimes are the same for everybody.

Alemán is one of the founders of the Nicaraguan University Alliance.

"We reject the criminal action of the judiciary that consciously commits annulments by acting against the express law. We demand that the farce be lifted and all political prisoners be immediately released," denounced the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh), led by the fighter Vilma Núñez.

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