Nicaragua: Bishop Rolando Álvarez wins IRI Freedom Prize 2024 in the US

Two weeks later, when they were almost out of food, the police burst into the house and Mons. Álvarez was kidnapped heading to Managua, the country’s capital, where he was under house arrest.

In the midst of a questioned process, the dictatorship sentenced on February 10, 2023 to 26 years and four months in prison, accusing him of “traitor to the country.” Since then, he was held in the prison known as The modelwhere the political prisoners of the dictatorship are sent.

One day before being condemned, Mons. Alvarez he had refused to get on a plane in which Ortega and Murillo deported more than 200 political prisoners to the United States.