Posted on 02/11/2023 6:24:09 PM PST by marshmallow
A news site obtained access to the closed-doors verdict and reported Feb. 4 that the Tenth Criminal Trial District Court of Managua, presided by Judge Nancy Aguirre, had sentenced the priest on Jan. 24.
The dictatorship in Nicaragua, led by President Daniel Ortega, sentenced Father Óscar Danilo Benavidez Dávila to 10 years in prison for the alleged crimes of “conspiracy” and “spreading fake news” to the detriment of the regime.
The news site obtained access to the closed-doors verdict and reported Feb. 4 that the Tenth Criminal Trial District Court of Managua, presided by Judge Nancy Aguirre, had sentenced the priest on Jan. 24.
According to the ruling, after a trial riddled with irregularities, the priest was given five years in prison for the crime of “spreading fake news” and another five for “undermining national security and sovereignty.”
In addition, the Catholic priest was fined 49,917 córdobas, about $1,350.
Father Benavidez, 50, known for being a critic of the dictatorship, has been in custody since Aug. 14, 2022, when he was arrested after celebrating a Mass in the Conception of Mary chapel in the Diocese of Siuna.
He was found guilty Jan. 16 and the state prosecution requested a sentence of eight years in prison. However, the court sentenced him to 10 years.
Despacho 505 noted that Father Benavidez is the first priest sentenced for “conspiracy and cybercrimes, crimes invented by the regime of Daniel Ortega and [his wife, Vice President] Rosario Murillo to imprison opponents.”
According to the priest’s defense, during the trial the alleged “crime” he committed was expressing his opinion in a social media post.
The Nicaraguan news outlet Mosaico reported Jan. 16 that the only trial hearing lasted fewer than eight hours.
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Sounds like the POS up north, Trudeau
Is the FBI taking notes? They are hunting for “radical-traditionalist Catholics” (and don’t let the retraction of their recently leaked memo fool you).
Daniel Ortega has not changed in 40 years.
John “Lurch” Kerry’s good buddy and fellow Communist.
And “Let’s go Brandon”.
Carter should have taken Danny down in 1979.
Carter take down a fellow Communist ?
Coming to a theater near you.
Democrats supported these communists so much for so long.
Sounds like what is happening in the US.
Ortega, a friend of former Senators Dodd, Harkin and Kerry, plus Ted Kennedy. Need I say more.
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