Cristiana Chamorro, who has been on house arrest since June 2021, was formally placed on trial for alleged money laundering other crimes. President Ortega's government has cracked down on many opposition figures.
Nicaraguan judges on Wednesday convicted seven opposition leaders, including former high-level Sandinistas and three former presidential contenders, of “conspiracy to undermine national integrity.”
The seven included Felix Maradiaga, Juan Sebastian Chamorro and Arturo Cruz Sequeira, a former Nicaraguan ambassador to the US, a Civic Alliance spokesperson said.
All three had been planning to run in the presidential election on Nov. 7 last year, before the government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega arrested them and about 40 other opponents.
With all of them in custody, Ortega cruised to winning a fourth consecutive presidential term in an election widely criticized by the international community.
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