Jasson Salazar is one of more than one hundred political prisoners held in Nicaraguan prisons. His trial illustrates one of the new arbitrary practices of justice obedient to the Sandinista Executive.

Political prisoners are not even taken to a court to be prosecuted and, instead, are declared guilty through video calls. The Legal Defense Unit (UDJ), an organization that monitors the judicial processes of political prisoners in Nicaragua, catalogs telematic trials as a new repressive pattern used by the regime.