human rights defender

Olesia Auxiliadora Muñoz Pavón

Actions and Campaigns

Urgent support needed

(AI Translated) Psychosocial support, assistance with migration procedures for exile and obtaining a new nationality, as they have become stateless as a result of the Supreme Court's judicial resolution, which disclosed that the First Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeals, Managua Circuit, issued a judicial resolution ordering the loss of Nicaraguan nationality for the 135 people expelled to Guatemala, as well as humanitarian aid 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

HRD's bio and work

(AI Translated) Olesia Muñoz is a community social leader, soprano singer, professional musician, and spice trader, who joined the 2018 social protests following the death of Álvaro Conrado, promoting the participation of residents of Nindirí and neighboring towns in demonstrations demanding justice for the murdered youths. After her release in June 2019, she continued taking part in actions that advocated for the freedom of political prisoners. As a result of systematic persecution against the Catholic Church, she was besieged, pursued, and threatened by the National Police and supporters of the ruling party, until she was violently detained again at her home in April 2023. Olesia provided pastoral services in the choir of the Santa Ana parish in Niquinohomo; she was a word delegate in the El Portillo community; and she worked in a shop in a market in Managua.

Current Status

Released

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 two months of imprisonment

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

(AI Translated) Tipitapa

Location of detention - Facility

(AI Translated) Comprehensive Women's Prison (EPIM), better known as “La Esperanza”

Recent case update / evolution

(AI Translated) The first arrest in 2018 took place in Dolores, Carazo, and the second 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, expelled to Guatemala on September 5 2024 and stripped of Nicaraguan nationality, rendering her stateless, she is currently processing her exile, in addition to the threat of being deprived of all her assets according to the Supreme Court of Justice resolution issued on September 10 2024. On December 6 she was granted the United States Safe Mobility Program, where she now resides.

Any other relevant documents

(AI Translated) Inter-American Court of Human Rights Resolution of October 14, 2019, Case Seventeen Persons Deprived of Liberty Regarding 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 Juan Sebastián Chamorro and Others, Regarding Nicaragua https://corteidh.or.cr/docs/medidas/chamorro_se_09.pdf

Precautionary Measures No. 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 Olesia Muñoz https://www.tiktok.com/@realidadesnic/video/7412672777943026950

IACHR grants precautionary measures to 8 persons deprived of liberty in Nicaragua https://oasmailmanager.oas.org/es/CIDH/jsForm/?File=/es/cidh/prensa/comunicados/2024/008.asp

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