The communist regime in Nicaragua announced the conviction of 11 pastors associated with the Evangelical Mountain Gateway ministry and humanitarian organization, this week on dubious and unspecified charges of “money laundering,” sentencing the accused to between 12 and 15 years in prison.
Nicaragua – led by the radical Marxist Sandinista regime of Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo – officially convicted the pastors on March 19, but handed down the sentences on Wednesday. Two of those arrested, pastors Walner Omier Blandón Ochoa and wife Marisela de Fátima Mejía Ruiz, received 15-year sentences. The other ten – Marcos Sergio Hernández Jirón, Harry Lening Rios Bravo, Manuel de Jesús Ríos Flores, José Luis Orozco Urrutia, Álvaro Daniel Escobar Caldera, Juan Carlos Chavarría Zapata, Juan Luis Moncada, Orvin Alexis Moncada Castellano, and César Facundo Burgalin Miranda – received 12-year sentences. All faced charges of “aggravated money laundering.”
In addition, according to the Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa, the court imposed a fine of $80 million per pastor arrested – nearly a billion dollars in fines – and two attorneys attempting to aid in the defense of the Christians, Isabel Cristina Acevedo Solís and Maricarmen Espinoza Segura, were sentenced to ten years in prison and similarly fined tens of millions of dollars.
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Nicaragua – led by the radical Marxist Sandinista regime of Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo – officially convicted the pastors on March 19, but handed down the sentences on Wednesday. Two of those arrested, pastors Walner Omier Blandón Ochoa and wife Marisela de Fátima Mejía Ruiz, received 15-year sentences. The other ten – Marcos Sergio Hernández Jirón, Harry Lening Rios Bravo, Manuel de Jesús Ríos Flores, José Luis Orozco Urrutia, Álvaro Daniel Escobar Caldera, Juan Carlos Chavarría Zapata, Juan Luis Moncada, Orvin Alexis Moncada Castellano, and César Facundo Burgalin Miranda – received 12-year sentences. All faced charges of “aggravated money laundering.”
In addition, according to the Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa, the court imposed a fine of $80 million per pastor arrested – nearly a billion dollars in fines – and two attorneys attempting to aid in the defense of the Christians, Isabel Cristina Acevedo Solís and Maricarmen Espinoza Segura, were sentenced to ten years in prison and similarly fined tens of millions of dollars.
Communist Nicaragua Sentences Christian Pastors to 12-15 Years in Prison on Holy Week
Nicaragua announced the conviction of 11 pastors associated with the Evangelical Mountain Gateway ministry and humanitarian organization.
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