The presentation of ten political prisoners, by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, has generated endless criticism of the regime for trying to give a wink of legality to its actions. To justify his decision to expose the hostages of conscience, he invented a legal term: “informative hearing.”
This haste of the dictatorship to expose that the political prisoners “are in good health” occurs after the complaint of the relatives of the detainees before the serious torture they suffer in the Directorate of Judicial Assistance (DAJ), known as “El Nuevo Chipote”. », a center where they are subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, according to human rights organizations.
“Exhibiting political hostages are fascist techniques of the Nicaraguan dictatorship, just like Hitler, they wanted to deny the abuses of concentration camps and mount a parallel narrative,” said Arturo McFields, former Nicaraguan ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS). .
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Juan Diego Barberena, a member of the Political Council of National and White Unity (Unab), wrote on his Twitter account: “Each smile and serenity of the political prisoners is a political and moral defeat for the tyranny.”
Lawyer María Asunción Moreno, a member of the Executive Council of the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy (ACJD), wrote on her Twitter account: “How many mixed emotions, all this is unfair. Release them! They are innocent, they should be free.”
The Blue and White National Unity (Unab) demanded that the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship show all the prisoners and not just a part of them. In addition, he assured that the images show the physical deterioration of the 10 prisoners exposed. “We demand that they present the other men and all the women they are holding captive. Nicaragua must know its real state of health. We demand that they show them now », he emphasized.
Dr. Anely Pérez, a member of the ACDJ, highlighted on her social networks that political prisoners are innocent and that university leaders Lesther Alemán and Max Jeréz are “brilliant students, excellent young people, excellent children, worthy Nicaraguans… free them.”
The Alliance of Nicaraguan Youth and Students (AJEN) stressed that the hostages of conscience “continue to show us resistance and conviction. The regime has robbed them of more than a year of freedom, they have lost many important moments in their lives with their families. We demand that they be released now.”
The Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh) denounced that the actions of the dictatorship are carried out outside the law because they have no legal basis. The agency explained that the political prisoners had already been notified of the convictions imposed by the Ortega judges and that these sentences were ratified by the Court of Appeals; Subsequently, an appeal was made and that the resources should have already been admitted by the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ).
