- Name: Suyén Barahona
- Position: Opposition leader and former presidential pre candidate
- Deprived of liberty from: The 13th of June of 2021
- Judgment: 15 years of imprisonment
- Country: Republic of Nicaragua
- Place of confinement: El Nuevo Chipote Jail
- Health condition: Normal
- Torture complaint: Subject to cruel and inhuman treatment
She is president of the Democratic Union of Nicaragua (Unamos), an opposition group that succeeded the Sandinista Renovating Movement. She is also a member of the Blue and White National Unity opposition group that was formed after the outbreak of protests against the government in April 2018. In June 2021, she was arrested along with other opponents and pre-candidates for president in the Nicaraguan general elections of 2021.
She was sentenced on February 7, 2022 to 15 years in prison and disqualification from holding public office for the alleged crime of undermining national integrity.
Since the date of his arrest, June 13, 2021, he has remained in solitary confinement and incommunicado, without being able to communicate with his five-year-old son at the facilities of the “El Nuevo Chipote” Judicial Assistance Directorate, where the detainees are subjected to cruel and inhuman treatment.
Barahona has been one of the most representative faces within the opposition, denouncing the human rights violations committed in Nicaragua and advocating for the restoration of democracy in the country.
Sponsors
Name : María Soraya Rodríguez Ramos
Position: Member of the European Parliament (MEP)
Observations
María Soraya Rodríguez is a Spanish lawyer and politician. She is an MEP from the delegation of the Spanish Ciudadanos party in the European Parliament, belonging to the Renovar Europa parliamentary group, elected in the elections of May 26, 20192.
She is president of the Delegation for Relations with the Pan-African Parliament and coordinator of Renew Europe of the Human Rights Subcommittee of the European Parliament1. Likewise, she is a member of the Conference of Delegation Presidents; the Foreign Affairs Committee; the Commission on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety; the Commission on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality; the Development Committee and the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.
