(AI translated) Marvin Vargas was born on May 30, 1970, in the city of Esteli, Nicaragua. He was the president of the Sandino's Cubs Association, as the young people who were part of the Patriotic Military Service (PMS) were called. In 2011, Marvin led the protests of mostly male persons who had served in the military demanding a budget allocation to address their urgent social problems. In March 2011, Vargas led the protest takeover of the Metropolitan Cathedral of Managua, demanding the social claims of former war mobilization soldiers, many of them disabled. At that time, the government assumed the commitment to respond to their demands, which was not fulfilled, thus generating new protest actions. On May 8, Marvin was captured in Esteli, and his house was searched without a warrant, taking all physical and digital files of the organization. For months, the authorities gave no news of him. It was not until September of that year that a personal exhibition was decreed, and then freedom was ordered by the executing judge. Judge Eight of the Crime District, Tomas Cortez, also issued a freedom order. This was not complied with. In October 2011, Marvin began a hunger strike in the penitentiary center, demanding that the freedom order be遵守 and days later the Public Ministry accused him of aggravated fraud in the contract of Juan Carlos Canales and Mauricio Sotomayor, two people who did not attend the trial or were located at the address they reported. They accused him of defrauding them of three thousand dollars. Nonetheless, on February 16, 2012, Vargas was sentenced to five years and six months in prison. In February 2012, Marvin denounced before the judge the tortures, ill-treatment, and death threats to which he was subjected. He asked to take off his shirt to show the evidence, but he was not allowed to do so. Subsequently, he was sentenced to five years and six months in prison. On November 7, 2016, after five years and six months of unjust detention, Marvin Vargas Herrera received the freedom order by sentence issued by Judge of Execution and Penitentiary Surveillance Roxana Zapata. Again, the Penitentiary Service did not comply with the freedom order, arbitrarily detaining him in prison. On April 30, 2017, after almost six months of serving his sentence, and being illegally detained, Marvin Vargas Herrera was promptly referred to the courts of justice, where he was accused of internal trafficking of narcotics. He was not allowed his own defender, and the witnesses were the police officers of the penal. The result was another condemnatory sentence, this time to twelve years in prison, and for more than two years he was suspended from family visits and was not even allowed to attend his mother's funeral. In addition, on several occasions, he has been kept in maximum security cells, completely closed, without sunlight, and in absolute isolation. His case shows that arbitrary detention has been and continues to be one of the most recurrent methods to silence social protest, in addition to demonstrating the use of physical and psychological torture as a repressive practice.