Jonathan Snayder López

Jonathan Snayder López: Captured Since the Begining of the Protests in 2018

On February 9th, 2023, when the Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo regime released and exiled 222 people who were deprived of their liberty for political reasons to the United States, Jonathan Snayder López, from Matagalpa was in the group of 34 people who remained imprisoned.

Jonathan is originally from Matagalpa and was captured on April 22, 2018, days after the beginning of the protests and the regime unleashed a sociopolitical crisis to eliminate them with violent repression.

Jonathan was 21 years old when he was captured for his participation in the peaceful demonstrations and, since then, the human rights organizations and his family, denounced that he has been victim to constant beatings.

Ortega-Murillo regime refuses to release him, even though his three children; 3, 5, and 8 years old, are waiting for him outside.

When he was just captured and while in jail, the regime also accused him of the death of a policeman in Managua, when the fire broke out in the Carlos Marx neighbothood, where an entire family burned to death.

However, Jonathan, in that moment was detained in the Model prison, and his capture was in Matagalpa, not in Managua and when his lawyer was able to prove he was detained, they changed the charged and set a baseless accusation of possession of firearms and narcotics and of alterations in the highway.

His case, like any other of all people deprived of their liberty for political reasons, has been plagued by irregularities. The people who were captured and prosecuted by the Nicaragua regime in 2018, commonly were accused of these same charged, even if they were not proven in a trial that respected the guarantees of due process.

Jonathan Snayder López is a construction worker who has been imprisoned for more than five years for crimes that he did not commit, who misses his family and wishes to reunite with them soon.

¡Freedom for Jonathan Snayder López!

We demand the Ortega-Murillo Regime: ¡NicasLibresYa!