(AI Translated) On April 22, 2023, police officers went to Mr. Castilblanco’s residence to inform him that he had an arrest warrant that was never presented to him, taking him to the Jinotega police station. Afterwards, the police raided his home in the Linda Vista neighborhood without presenting a search warrant, confiscating his radio equipment, his under‑age daughters’ jewelry, masonry tools, various documents, his deceased mother’s testament, two tablets, two motorcycles, two computers, about $2,000 USD, and a Hyundai Eon vehicle, without providing a receipt for the seized items nor returning them to the family. At the time of his detention, the police accused him of riding his motorcycle while displaying stickers critical of the government ahead of the November 2021 presidential elections. That same day his wife, Jaqueline de Jesús Rodríguez Herrera, went to the Jinotega police station to inquire about Mr. Castilblanco and was denied information. Police officers summoned Rodríguez Herrera and Castilblanco’s relatives to the station to give statements; they appeared on April 23, 2023, and the police detained Mrs. Rodríguez Herrera for investigative purposes. Both were transferred on April 23, 2024, from the Jinotega police station to District III of the police in Managua. It was not until May 19, 2023, that agents of the Judicial Assistance Directorate informed Castilblanco’s family and Mrs. Rodríguez that they could be found in District III of the Managua Police, and when they arrived on May 22, a doctor at the center requested medication, allowing the entry of a package but did not let them see the detainees. On June 9, 2023, police refused food and informed the family that Mr. Sergio Castilblanco was being transferred to the Tipitapa Penitentiary System “Jorge Navarro,” known as La Modelo, and Mrs. Rodríguez to the Integral Women’s Penitentiary Establishment (EPIM), known as La Esperanza. The family was able to see Mr. Castilblanco on June 12, 2023, after 51 days of enforced silence, and Mrs. Rodríguez on June 26, 2023, after 64 days of enforced silence. The judicial process began without either having a trusted defense lawyer; it was only on July 11, 2023, that they were allowed a private defense attorney, and at that time the family learned they were being charged with conspiracy to undermine national integrity in real participation with the crime of spreading false news through information and communication technologies to the detriment of the State of Nicaragua and Nicaraguan society. They were denied access to the indictment, the minutes of the alleged trial hearings, the exchange of evidence between the Prosecutor’s Office and the public defender, and any documents from the judicial file. The trial took place on August 21, 2023, during which Mrs. Jaqueline Rodríguez was taken to the courtroom of the Managua judicial complex where the trial was held, while Mr. Sergio Castilblanco participated via video link from SPN “La Modelo,” without either having visual contact with their UDJ defense lawyers. On the day of Mr. Castilblanco’s arrest, April 22, 2023, he was beaten by three police officers, leaving injuries to his groin and other areas. While he was in District III of Managua, between April 23 and June 12, 2023, he was subjected to various indignities: police officers incited common inmates to rape and beat him; they threw his food on the floor; and he was beaten again on June 12, 2023, resulting in swollen legs and bruises for several days. The medication his family had left at District III on May 22, at the request of a doctor, was never given to him. In “La Modelo” he was not allowed any reading material, not even a Bible, and his family was barred from providing certain foods such as cereal, oats, vegetables, fruit, energy bars, soups, etc., despite his diabetes and need for special diet, and he was kept in an unsanitary cell. On October 7, after being examined by a prison general practitioner, he was diagnosed with diabetes, neuralgia, and fluid retention, yet he was denied medication for his conditions. While his wife was confined in the District III police cells, she was never allowed to go to the sunny patio, and in “La Esperanza” she was only permitted to leave for half an hour on Tuesdays and Thursdays. On December 1, 2023, after Mr. Castilblanco attempted to start a hunger strike to demand medical care and generally better detention conditions, he was beaten and transferred to a maximum‑security cell with only his underwear, where he remained for about ten days. All his belongings, including the few medications his family had brought, were taken away. Regarding the legal situation of the Castilblanco‑Rodríguez spouses, on March 6, 2024, the Second Criminal Chamber of the Managua Court of Appeals issued a resolution denying an appeal hearing. On March 22, 2024, the same court dismissed the appeal motions filed on behalf of the spouses. In that decision, the couple’s movable assets and personal documents were confiscated, neither was allowed communication with their lawyers, violating due process and their judicial guarantees, in addition to being subjected to torture and cruel, degrading, and inhuman treatment.