human rights defender
Olesia Auxiliadora Muñoz Pavón
Actions and Campaigns
Olesia Auxiliadora Muñoz Pavón
HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER
Urgent support needed
(AI translated) Psychosocial accompaniment, support in the migrant legal proceedings for their exile and to obtain a new nationality, as they have been left stateless following the judicial resolution of the Supreme Court of Justice, which revealed that the First Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeal, Circumscription Managua, issued a judicial resolution ordering the loss of Nicaraguan nationality to the 135 exiled persons in Guatemala, in addition to humanitarian support for their subsistence.
Organization affiliation
- Coro de la parraquia católica de la Iglesia Santa Ana de Nindirí, Masaya-Nicaragua
HRD's year of birth
1972
HRD's Gender
Woman
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) Olesia Muñoz is a community social leader, soprano singer, professional musician, and spice merchant who joined the 2018 social protests following the death of Álvaro Conrado, promoting the participation of the people of Nindirí and neighboring towns in demonstrations demanding justice for the murdered youth. After her release from prison in June 2019, she continued to participate in actions that promoted the freedom of political prisoners. As a result of the relentless persecution against the Catholic Church, she was besieged, pursued, and threatened by the National Police and sympathizers of the ruling party until she was violently arrested again at her home in April 2023. Olesia provided pastoral services in the choir of the Santa Ana parish in Niquinohomo; she was a delegate of the word in the El Portillo community; and she worked in a store in a market in Managua.
Detained since
Jan 4, 2023
Date of release
May 9, 2024
Charge(s)
- Other
- Spreading fake news
- Subversion
- Terrorism
Sentence
(AI translated) 43 years and 2 months of prison
Latitude: 12.156695347062476
Longitude: -86.09295485281102
Geolocation of detention
Country or area of detention
Region of detention
- Americas: Latin America and the Caribbean
Location of detention - City/Town
Tipitapa
Location of detention - Facility
Establecimiento Penitenciario Integral de Mujeres (EPIM), mejor conocido como «La Esperanza»
Recent case update / evolution
(AI translated) The first arrest in 2018 took place in Dolores, Carazo, and the second time in 2023 in Niquinohomo, Masaya.
Details of the sentence: 33 years and two months in prison for the first charge; 10 years for the second charge.
Released, exiled to Guatemala on September 5, 2024, and deprived of Nicaraguan citizenship, which makes her stateless, in the process of managing her exile, in addition to the threat of being dispossessed of all her property according to the resolution of the Supreme Court of Justice issued on September 10, 2024.
Any other relevant documents
(AI translated) Inter-American Court of Human Rights Resolution of October 14, 2019, Case of Seventeen Privation of Liberty in Nicaragua, https://www.corteidh.or.cr/docs/medidas/diecisiete_personas_se_02.pdf
Inter-American Court of Human Rights Resolution of July 2, 2024, Extension of Provisional Measures, Case of Juan Sebastián Chamorro and Others, Regarding Nicaragua https://corteidh.or.cr/docs/medidas/chamorro_se_09.pdf
Precautionary Measures Nos. 1022-23 and 1025-23, Resolution 89/2023, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights https://www.oas.org/es/cidh/decisiones/mc/2023/res_89-23_mc_1022-23_1025-23_ni_es.pdf
Interview with Olesia Muñoz https://www.tiktok.com/@realidadesnic/video/7412672777943026950
IACHR Grants Precautionary Measures to 8 Privation of Liberty in Nicaragua https://oasmailmanager.oas.org/es/CIDH/jsForm/?File=/es/cidh/prensa/comunicados/2024/008.asp
Attachments
Documented by
- Country(ies) of nationality
- HRD's year of birth
- 1972
- HRD's Gender
- Woman
- Type of HRD
- Social and community leader
- HRD's thematic area of engagement
- Civil and political rights
- Organization affiliation
- Coro de la parraquia católica de la Iglesia Santa Ana de Nindirí, Masaya-Nicaragua
- HRD's Picture
- HRD's bio and work
(AI translated) Olesia Muñoz is a community social leader, soprano singer, professional musician, and spice merchant who joined the 2018 social protests following the death of Álvaro Conrado, promoting the participation of the people of Nindirí and neighboring towns in demonstrations demanding justice for the murdered youth. After her release from prison in June 2019, she continued to participate in actions that promoted the freedom of political prisoners. As a result of the relentless persecution against the Catholic Church, she was besieged, pursued, and threatened by the National Police and sympathizers of the ruling party until she was violently arrested again at her home in April 2023. Olesia provided pastoral services in the choir of the Santa Ana parish in Niquinohomo; she was a delegate of the word in the El Portillo community; and she worked in a store in a market in Managua.
- HRD's geographical origin
- Urban
- Country or area of detention
- Region of detention
- Americas: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Location of detention - City/Town
- Tipitapa
- Location of detention - Facility
- Establecimiento Penitenciario Integral de Mujeres (EPIM), mejor conocido como «La Esperanza»
- Geolocation of detention
Latitude: 12.156695347062476
Longitude: -86.09295485281102
- Geolocation of detention
- Detained since
- Jan 4, 2023
- Current Status
- Released
- Date of release
- May 9, 2024
- Charge(s)
- Other
- Spreading fake news
- Subversion
- Terrorism
- Sentence
(AI translated) 43 years and 2 months of prison
- Recent case update / evolution
(AI translated) The first arrest in 2018 took place in Dolores, Carazo, and the second time in 2023 in Niquinohomo, Masaya.
Details of the sentence: 33 years and two months in prison for the first charge; 10 years for the second charge.
Released, exiled to Guatemala on September 5, 2024, and deprived of Nicaraguan citizenship, which makes her stateless, in the process of managing her exile, in addition to the threat of being dispossessed of all her property according to the resolution of the Supreme Court of Justice issued on September 10, 2024.
- Protection actions and campaigns
- Urgent support needed
(AI translated) Psychosocial accompaniment, support in the migrant legal proceedings for their exile and to obtain a new nationality, as they have been left stateless following the judicial resolution of the Supreme Court of Justice, which revealed that the First Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeal, Circumscription Managua, issued a judicial resolution ordering the loss of Nicaraguan nationality to the 135 exiled persons in Guatemala, in addition to humanitarian support for their subsistence.
- Any other relevant documents
(AI translated) Inter-American Court of Human Rights Resolution of October 14, 2019, Case of Seventeen Privation of Liberty in Nicaragua, https://www.corteidh.or.cr/docs/medidas/diecisiete_personas_se_02.pdf
Inter-American Court of Human Rights Resolution of July 2, 2024, Extension of Provisional Measures, Case of Juan Sebastián Chamorro and Others, Regarding Nicaragua https://corteidh.or.cr/docs/medidas/chamorro_se_09.pdf
Precautionary Measures Nos. 1022-23 and 1025-23, Resolution 89/2023, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights https://www.oas.org/es/cidh/decisiones/mc/2023/res_89-23_mc_1022-23_1025-23_ni_es.pdf
Interview with Olesia Muñoz https://www.tiktok.com/@realidadesnic/video/7412672777943026950
IACHR Grants Precautionary Measures to 8 Privation of Liberty in Nicaragua https://oasmailmanager.oas.org/es/CIDH/jsForm/?File=/es/cidh/prensa/comunicados/2024/008.asp
- Documented by
- Consent status
- Consent to register, store and publish the information
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