{"id":185984,"date":"2026-03-29T02:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/sin-categoria\/political-prisoner-giovanni-jaret-guido-released-after-serving-unjust-sentence\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T15:39:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T21:39:33","slug":"political-prisoner-giovanni-jaret-guido-released-after-serving-unjust-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/en\/english\/political-prisoner-giovanni-jaret-guido-released-after-serving-unjust-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Prisoner Giovanni Jaret Guido Released After Serving \u201cUnjust Sentence\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo released political prisoner Giovanni Jaret Guido Morales on March 28, 2026, after he completed a four-year sentence, the Group of Reflection of Former Political Prisoners (GREX) confirmed.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cThe visibility of his case, in a context of international pressure, yielded results (\u2026) Today he has the opportunity to rebuild his life, which was deeply affected after four years of uninterrupted imprisonment and nearly eight years of political persecution,\u201d GREX said.<\/p>\n\n

Guido Morales completed his sentence on March 27, 2026, after being convicted in a process that, according to GREX, was riddled with irregularities and lacked \u201cany evidence\u201d of his involvement in the alleged acts.<\/p>\n\n

Following a closed-door trial\u2014in which, according to GREX, \u201chis mother was never allowed to enter\u201d\u2014the sentence was handed down on October 5, 2022. Guido Morales had been arrested on March 27 of that year after an altercation with neighbors who claimed they had been robbed and assaulted. <\/p>\n\n

Held in a punishment cell <\/h2>\n\n

The dictatorship has detained Guido Morales at least three times since 2018. <\/p>\n\n

He was first arrested in October 2018 and \u201cput on trial.\u201d Although he was acquitted on December 12 of attempted murder charges due to a lack of evidence, the prison system \u201cfailed to comply with the court order,\u201d and he was not released until June 6, 2019, GREX recalled. <\/p>\n\n

\u201cIt was a completely arbitrary process,\u201d GREX added, \u201cas was his release. Witnesses saw him being held at El Chipote during those days.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

However, after regaining his freedom, he continued to face surveillance, harassment, and threats from the police, and was arrested a second time in January 2020. He was charged with drug trafficking and storage, sentenced to seven years in prison, and released on July 19, 2020. <\/p>\n\n

During that period of detention, under precarious prison conditions\u2014including time spent in dark cells\u2014he \u201csuffered an infection in the eye socket he had lost\u201d in 2018 during the anti-government protests, due to not receiving \u201cmedical care,\u201d GREX said in a statement. <\/p>\n\n

In 2022, he was detained and convicted once again. Since August 2024, Guido Morales has been the beneficiary of precautionary measures granted by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), <\/a>which confirmed that he was held in \u201cprolonged isolation.\u201d <\/p>\n\n

Political prisoners still not released <\/h2>\n\n

In Nicaragua, four political prisoners have completed their sentences or have release orders but remain imprisoned due to newly fabricated charges. Among them are the following prisoners of conscience listed by the Mechanism for the Recognition of Political Prisoners:<\/a> <\/p>\n\n