The Group of United Political Kidnapped (GSPU) reported this December 31, that this 2022, closes with more than 235 political prisoners who will not be able to receive 2023 with their families.
“In our beloved Homeland there are more than 235 families of political prisoners that we continue to hope are released, since they are innocent and do not deserve to continue suffering in the dungeons where they are held hostage in subhuman, overcrowded conditions, exposed to massive contagion, many of them isolated without the slightest respect for their status as older adults,” said the Group.
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The members of the GSPU recalled that among the hostages of conscience, there are opponents kidnapped before the civic rebellion of 2018, and that to date they have been in captivity for more than 11 years.
«Marvin Vargas «the puppy» has been in prison for 11 and a half years, he has been away from his home for 12 Christmases. Eight and a half years: the 9 political prisoners in the July 19 case, who have spent nine Christmases in which they have not been able to share with their families,” they detailed.
Political prisoners have not been able to say goodbye to their parents who have died
On the other hand, they pointed out that “a good number of political prisoners” have lost their parents and have been denied the right to attend their funerals.”
Among the most remembered deaths and that the Ortega dictatorship did not allow the hostages of conscience to go to the wake or burial, is that of Heydi Meza, mother of the political prisoner and student leader Max Sherryor the one of Ezequiel Mairenabrother of the peasant leader Medardo Mairena.
Regarding health conditions, the GSPU also reported that in “the dungeons” of the country, political prisoners have acquired different types of diseases “such as hypertension, diabetes, kidney disease, allergies and that they have not received adequate medical attention. ».
“We do not lose hope and faith in our good God, that the more than 235 political prisoners are released, as are the priests and lay people who have been kidnapped and accused of heinous crimes just for defending the truth and being on the side of his people,” he said.
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Faced with these arbitrariness of the Nicaraguan regime, the relatives of the political hostages asked the International Community to speak out “and support us in our demands for the freedom of the more than 235 political prisoners.”
“We forcefully ask the government of Daniel Ortega that the human rights of our political prisoners be respected and that they be released without any condition, since they are innocent,” they concluded.
