A Nicaraguan judge sentenced Roman Catholic Bishop Rolando Álvarez to 26 years in prison on Friday, a day after the prominent government critic refused to get on a flight to the United States with 222 other prisoners.
Octavio Ernesto Rothschuh, chief magistrate of the Managua appeals court, handed down the sentence, which is the longest given to any of the opposition figures and critics of the government of President Daniel Ortega in the last couple years.
Álvarez was arrested in August along with several other priests and lay people. Ortega said Thursday night that before boarding the plane to Washington Álvarez said he would not go without being able to consult with other bishops. Something Ortega called, “an absurd thing.” The president said Álvarez, who had been held under house arrest, was then taken to the nearby Modelo prison.Álvarez had been one of the most outspoken religious figures still in Nicaragua as Ortega intensified his repression of the opposition.Sanctions and public criticism of Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega had been building for months, but both United States and Nicaraguan officials say the decision to put 222 dissidents on a plane to Washington came suddenly.
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