Nilson Membreño

Freedom for Nilson so he can return to work

Nilson Membreño was 28 years old when the regime’s police decided to enter the company where he worked without authorization and capture him without a court order or inform him of the reasons for his arrest. That happened in 2018, four years later, Nilson is still incarcerated in the “La Modelo” Penitentiary System.

Nilson has not committed any crime, but the Ortega regime decided to imprison him for his participation in the civic protests that began in April of the same year that he was captured. As part of the torture to which political prisoners are subjected to, the regime has denied him adequate medical attention and inside the prison he has suffered facial paralysis and Covid-19 and has not been able to see his seven-year-old son.

During the nullity-filled trial, the co-opted criminal justice system sentenced him to 10 years in prison for drug trafficking, psychotropics and controlled substances, in addition to manufacturing, trafficking, possession and use of restricted weapons. For 15 months he was awaiting trial and in all that time the Prosecutor’s Office could not prove the crimes.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) granted him precautionary measures in November 2020, determining that the State of Nicaragua should adopt the possibility of alternative measures to the deprivation of liberty, but the regime has absolutely failed to comply with them.

Nilson Membreño has not committed any crime, he is one of the 173 political prisoners who are suffering in Daniel Ortega’s prisons in Nicaragua.

Freedom for Nilson Membreño!

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