human rights defender

Yader de los Ángeles Parajón Gutiérrez

Actions and Campaigns

Organization affiliation

  • Articulación de Movimientos Sociales (AMS)
  • Asociación Madres de Abril (AMA)
  • Unidad Nacional Azul y Blanco (UNAB)

HRD's year of birth

1990

HRD's Gender

Man

Type of HRD

  • Social and community leader

HRD's thematic area of engagement

  • Civil and political rights

HRD's geographical origin

Urban

HRD's bio and work

(AI Translated) Psychology student at the Central American University (UCA), where she joined the student protests over the burning of Indio Maíz and later the Mothers of April Association (AMA) after the death of her brother Jimmy Parajón, who was killed in May 2018 during the social protests.

Yader Parajón became one of the most media‑visible faces of the Mothers of April Association and traveled throughout South America with the International Solidarity Caravan with Nicaragua. She is also a member of the National Blue and White Unity (UNAB).

Current Status

Released

Detained since

Sep 5, 2021

Date of release

Feb 9, 2023

Charge(s)

  • Subversion

Sentence

(AI Translated) 10 years imprisonment

Latitude: 12.096942985994628

Longitude: -86.2812758311463

Geolocation of detention

Country or area of detention

Region of detention

  • Americas: Latin America and the Caribbean

Location of detention - City/Town

(AI Translated) Managua

Location of detention - Facility

(AI Translated) Judicial Assistance Office “Evaristo Vásquez” known as the New Chipote

Allegations / reports of ill-treatment

(AI Translated) Since his capture he was kept in punishment cells measuring 2 meters by 2 meters, together with other political prisoners. He was subjected to psychological torture because of his homosexual preference, mistreatment and beatings.

While in prison he staged a hunger strike demanding to be transferred to another cell.

Recent case update / evolution

(AI Translated) Exiled and stripped of his nationality and his assets

On 07/02/23 a judicial notification notice was sent to the defense, declaring him a traitor to the Fatherland and disabling his civil rights.

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