Fanor Alejandro Ramos

Fanor Alejandro Ramos, the policeman who refused to be a paramilitary

Fanor Alejandro Ramos, 50 years old, is the father of three children. Before being arbitrarily detained, he worked for 25 years in the Nicaraguan National Police. He was a special brigade officer, shooting and security teacher, he was head of the third section of the department of tactics and police weapons of rescue instruction of the Directorate of Special Operations (DOEP), during his police work he was recognized for his specialty as a sniper.

In 2018 the police tried to recruit him to reinstate him again, but this time it was to repress self-convened people who opposed the authoritarian regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo; however his personal values prevailed, that he had to go into exile in Costa Rica with his family, rather than go out to repress people exercising the right to protest.

Despite the lack of adequate socio-political conditions, he decided to return from exile to Nicaragua in 2019, however his former colleagues in the institution were in charge of persecuting him and captured him on December 19, 2019, when he was driving his truck at kilometer 45 of the old road to Leon in the Comarca Los Cedros.

Despite the fact that they did not find any object or substance that incriminated him in any crime , the co-opted criminal justice system through the Public Prosecutor’s Office charged him with the crime of storage of narcotics, psychotropic and other controlled substances. He was sentenced by Judge Wilfredo Alejandro Ramos to 8 years in prison and an accessory penalty of 34,000 córdobas, for a crime he did not commit.

He suffers from chronic diseases; arterial hypertension and diabetes, as well as lumbago. He remains in the penitentiary system “La Modelo” in Tipitapa where he was infected with Covid 19 and has not received, despite his chronic illnesses, specialized medical attention.

Taking into account the serious risk situation in which Fanor Alejandro Ramos finds himself, on November 2, 2020, the IACHR granted precautionary measures in his favor, along with 40 other political prisoners.

These measures include: that the necessary measures be adopted to guarantee the right to life, personal integrity and health, that the necessary measures be adopted so that he can have access to special health assessments, to ensure that his detention conditions are compatible with applicable international standards.

The State of Nicaragua has failed to comply with the precautionary measures.

Freedom for Fanor Alejandro Ramos!

We demand to the Ortega-Murillo regime: Free Nicas Now!