Teenager banished from Nicaragua for 'anti-regime' Facebook post

A 17-year-old teenager from the municipality of Morrito, Río San Juan, was banished from Nicaragua to Costa Rica on April 19 after being detained for an alleged Facebook post about the April 2018 rebellion against the Daniel Ortega regime, reported Despacho 505.

The young opponent, identified with the initials E.M.B, is the nephew of the recently released Armando Robles Alanis, another of the Nicaraguans exiled and sent to the United States on Feb. 9 along with 221 other political prisoners.

The minor was illegally detained within the framework of the fifth anniversary of the April Rebellion. After his arrest, he was transferred from Morrito to the San Carlos police station "because he had allegedly made a post on Facebook to commemorate the start of the protests against the Daniel Ortega regime," said one opposition leader, who also revealed E.M.B. was expelled at the San Pancho border post, located in San Carlos.

After his arrest, the teenager was handed over to his mother "on the condition that they immediately leave the country and never return."

“The mother is living in Costa Rica and when she found out that he had been arrested, she came. Since her  son was a minor, they handed him over on the condition that he leave the country,” added the opposition leader.

The minor had traveled to Morrito from Costa Rica, where he emigrated with his mother due to the police persecution that the regime maintains against the opponents, to spend the Easter holidays with his family.

The Daniel Ortega regime exiled more than 200 political prisoners in early February, including seven people who tried to run for office in the November 2021 presidential elections.

In addition to banishing them, the National Assembly of Nicaragua, controlled by theOrtega  dictatorship, stripped them of their nationality, leaving them in a stateless condition .