th<\/sup>\u00a0of July, the Commission asked the Inter-American Court to \u201ctake provisional measures in favour of the members of the Nicaraguan Centre for Human Rights (CENIDH) and the CPDH because of the extreme risk situation in Nicaragua\u201d.<\/p>\nThe Inter-American Commission also reminded the Ortega Government to immediately cease all arbitrary detentions and persecutions of human rights defenders in Nicaragua. She pointed out that the Special Monitoring Mechanism of Nicaragua (MESENI) had been informed of these police actions.<\/p>\n
Since her release, lawyer Mar\u00eda Oviedo has been prosecuted.<\/p>\n
The protective status granted to him by the IACHR was not taken into account during the preliminary hearing. When Mar\u00eda Oviedo\u2019s lawyer invoked the police officer\u2019s disrespectful behaviour towards her client, the judge replied that he had no evidence for commentaries. Although the prosecution has no legal basis according to the defendant, it has been found admissible by the judicial authority. The judge took additional measures by prohibiting the lawyer from leaving the country and forcing her to report once a month to the Managua courthouse.<\/p>\n
The National Union of Lawyers and Notaries of Nicaragua (UNANIC) will organize a sit-in, in solidarity with lawyer Mar\u00eda Oviedo during the initial hearing of the case before the third local criminal court in Managua. Since Maria Oviedo\u2019s arbitrary detention on the 26th<\/sup>\u00a0of July, UNANIC has unanimously rejected the actions of the officers who verbally and physically assaulted her by pushing her and applying a key to her neck and then dragging her into the cells.<\/p>\nAccording to Giovanny Silva Cruz, representative of UNANIC, repression against lawyers in their professional practice has been on the rise for the past five years, partly due to unconstitutional legislative reforms that directly affect the exercise of the defence.<\/p>\n
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[Update 03\/09\/2019<\/strong>\u00a0: On 29 September 2019, after more than 10 consecutive hours of trial, lawyer and human rights defender Maria Oviedo was convicted on Thursday evening of obstructing police activities at the expense of Police Orteguista (PO) Lieutenant Oscar Lopez, who verbally and physically assaulted her in Masaya on 26 July. The sentence was handed down on Monday, September 2: the lawyer was sentenced to 30 days in prison. The judge granted her a suspended sentence to serve it in liberty.<\/p>\nThe 30-day sentence will begin today, September 3. The lawyer added that when the court pronounced its sentence, it took into account the gender perspective and the conditions under which the events took place. Maria Oviedo also pointed out that the sentence allowed her to continue practising as a lawyer.]<\/p>\n
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The\u00a0IOLD<\/strong>\u00a0strongly condemns the arbitrary arrest and violence against lawyer Mar\u00eda Oviedo.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0IOLD<\/strong>\u00a0supports the lawyer as well as the National Union of Lawyers and Notaries of Nicaragua and the Standing Committee on Human Rights who are fighting to defend human rights in Nicaragua and the conditions of practice for lawyers.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0IOLD<\/strong>\u00a0calls upon the Nicaraguan authorities to comply with the 1990 Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers of the United Nations, namely:<\/p>\n\u2013 \u201cGovernments shall further ensure that all persons arrested or detained, with or without criminal charge, shall have prompt access to a lawyer, and in any case not later than forty-eight hours from the time of arrest or detention<\/em>\u201d (Principle 7);<\/p>\n\u2013 \u201cGovernments shall ensure that lawyers (a) are able to perform all of their professional functions without intimidation, hindrance, harassment or improper interference; (b) are able to travel and to consult with their clients freely both within their own country and abroad; and (c) shall not suffer, or be threatened with, prosecution or administrative, economic or other sanctions for any action taken in accordance with recognized professional duties, standards and ethics<\/em>\u201d (Principle 16).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"listing_category":[50],"event_category":[],"service_category":[],"rental_category":[],"classifieds_category":[],"listing_feature":[],"region":[83,1888],"class_list":["post-10492","listing","type-listing","status-publish","hentry","listing_category-threatened","region-america-en","region-nicaragua-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listing\/10492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listing"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/listing"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listing\/10492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16252,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listing\/10492\/revisions\/16252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"listing_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listing_category?post=10492"},{"taxonomy":"event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category?post=10492"},{"taxonomy":"service_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/service_category?post=10492"},{"taxonomy":"rental_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rental_category?post=10492"},{"taxonomy":"classifieds_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/classifieds_category?post=10492"},{"taxonomy":"listing_feature","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/listing_feature?post=10492"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=10492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}