human rights defender

Daysi Tamara Dávila Rivas

Actions and Campaigns

Organization affiliation

  • Unidad Nacional Azul y Blanco (UNAB)

HRD's year of birth

1981

HRD's Gender

Woman

Type of HRD

  • Social and community leader

HRD's thematic area of engagement

  • Civil and political rights
  • Women's rights

HRD's geographical origin

Urban

Current Status

Released

HRD's bio and work

(AI translated) Tamara Dávila is a women's rights advocate and member of civil society organisations. She participated in the protests that began in April 2018.

Since her exile and deprivation of nationality, she has continued her work as a human rights defender, advocating at the international level, denouncing the ongoing human rights crisis in Nicaragua before organisations such as the Organisation of American States (OAS) and touring various countries to raise awareness of the repression of the Ortega regime.

She maintains her feminist activism, actively participating in forums and conferences on feminist resistance and the situation of women under authoritarian regimes, and fights for the release of political prisoners who remain incarcerated in Nicaragua for political reasons.

Detained since

Jun 12, 2021

Date of release

Feb 9, 2023

Charge(s)

  • Subversion

Sentence

(AI translated) 8 years in prison

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

Allegations / reports of ill-treatment

(AI translated) Extreme isolation, subjecting her to daily interrogations and psychologically torturing her by mentioning her young daughter.

Recent case update / evolution

(AI translated) Exiled and stripped of her nationality and possessions.

On 07/02/23, a judicial notification card was sent to the defence declaring her a traitor to the country and revoking her civil rights.

Any other relevant documents

(AI translated) Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), Precautionary Measures No. 1067-18 https://www.oas.org/es/cidh/decisiones/mc/2021/res_27-21_mc_1067-18_ni_es.pdf

Provisional Measures granted by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on 24 June 2021 https://www.corteidh.or.cr/docs/medidas/45personas_se_02.pdf

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