The relatives of political prisoner José Antonio Peraza, convicted of crimes considered “treason against the country”, expressed this Friday, July 15, their fear for his life because he is suffering from “obvious” physical deterioration.
Karol Peraza, sister of the political prisoner, “denounced that she fears a lot for the life of her brother, who before being captured weighed 210 pounds and was strong and athletic,” the agency reported. Be Human Nicaraguamade up of colleagues and friends of political prisoners.
Along with Peraza’s complaint, Be human Nicaragua showed a drawn image of the opponent’s face, which shows it deteriorated.
Peraza, a political scientist by profession, was a leader of the opposition Blue and White National Unit (UNAB) when he was captured in July 2021, in the midst of a wave of arrests registered months before the general elections in November of that year, and in Last February he was found guilty of the crime of undermining national integrity to the detriment of the State of Nicaragua and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
According to the Mechanism for the recognition of persons imprisoned for political reasons in Nicaragua, whose data is endorsed by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), in the country there are 190 similar cases to that of Peraza.
Among the political prisoners are seven who had announced their aspirations to compete for the Presidency in the elections of last November, in which finally Daniel Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo, were re-elected in a vote without political competition and in which the abstention.
Physical and mental exhaustion
Last June, after the last visit that the political prisoners received in the El Chipote prison, the Mechanism denounced that at least 44 political prisoners suffer from diseases associated with heart and circulatory system ailments. “Some have suffered heart attacks or pre-heart attacks and are in a high-risk condition,” they warned.
The agency also warned that political prisoners sloth, Maria Esperanza Sanchez Y Pedro Vasquez; These were three cases that illustrated the physical and mental wear and tear to which the regime subjects prisoners of conscience, depriving them of timely and specialized medical care, while applying a secrecy policy that includes not informing relatives when they become ill.
“The lack of timely medical care has led, on the one hand, to an increase in hospitalization cases in the population of prisoners and political prisoners, as well as the appearance and worsening of chronic diseases,” warned the Mechanism for the Recognition of Prisoners. Policies, in its May report.
A source close to Peraza’s family also said then that the political scientist suffers from malnutrition, skin problems and recurrent kidney infection. Almost a year after his arrest —on July 26, 2021—, the man who entered prison without any ailment or disease, has multiple health problems.
Relatives of political prisoners assure that the food they are given in prison does not guarantee enough nutrients for their body and the conditions are “unhealthy”. He does not receive the required medical attention and the medicines are not appropriate. That is why the conditions persist for months, as has happened with dermatological diseases. Malnutrition has taken its toll on her body.
