human rights defender

Olesia Auxiliadora Muñoz Pavón

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.

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