human rights defender
Yader de los Ángeles Parajón Gutiérrez
Actions and Campaigns
Yader de los Ángeles Parajón Gutiérrez
HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER
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
Current Status
Released
HRD's bio and work
(AI translated) A 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 prominent faces of the Mothers of April Association and travelled throughout South America with the International Solidarity Caravan with Nicaragua. He is also a member of the Blue and White National Unity (UNAB).
Detained since
Sep 5, 2021
Date of release
Feb 9, 2023
Charge(s)
- Subversion
Sentence
(AI translated) 10 years in prison
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
Managua
Location of detention - Facility
Dirección de Auxilio Judicial «Evaristo Vásquez» conocido como el Nuevo Chipote
Recent case update / evolution
(AI translated) Exiled and stripped of his nationality and property
On 07/02/23, a judicial notification was sent to the defence declaring him a traitor to the country and revoking his civil rights.
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- Country(ies) of nationality
- 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
- Organization affiliation
- Articulación de Movimientos Sociales (AMS)
- Asociación Madres de Abril (AMA)
- Unidad Nacional Azul y Blanco (UNAB)
- HRD's Picture
- HRD's bio and work
(AI translated) A 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 prominent faces of the Mothers of April Association and travelled throughout South America with the International Solidarity Caravan with Nicaragua. He is also a member of the Blue and White National Unity (UNAB).
- HRD's geographical origin
- Urban
- Country or area of detention
- Region of detention
- Americas: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Location of detention - City/Town
- Managua
- Location of detention - Facility
- Dirección de Auxilio Judicial «Evaristo Vásquez» conocido como el Nuevo Chipote
- Geolocation of detention
Latitude: 12.096942985994628
Longitude: -86.2812758311463
- Geolocation of detention
- Detained since
- Sep 5, 2021
- Current Status
- Released
- Date of release
- Feb 9, 2023
- Charge(s)
- Subversion
- Sentence
(AI translated) 10 years in prison
- Recent case update / evolution
(AI translated) Exiled and stripped of his nationality and property
On 07/02/23, a judicial notification was sent to the defence declaring him a traitor to the country and revoking his civil rights.
- Allegations / reports of ill-treatment
(AI translated) Since his capture, he remained in punishment cells measuring 2 metres by 2 metres, together with other political prisoners. He was subjected to psychological torture because of his homosexuality, ill-treatment and beatings.
While in prison, he went on hunger strike to demand to be transferred to another cell.
- Protection actions and campaigns
- Documented by
- Consent status
- Consent to register, store and publish the information
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