For the second consecutive day, the Ortega Murillo dictatorship continues to show the political prisoners in the Central Judicial Complex of Managua. This Friday, August 31, the political prisoners Suyen Barahona and Dora María Téllez, both leaders of the political organization Unión Democrática Renovadora (Unamos), were brought to court.
The two women have been confined for more than 15 months in the cells of the Judicial Assistance Directorate (DAJ), known as “El Nuevo Chipote”, where they are subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, according to complaints from their relatives and defense organizations. of national and international human rights.
Suyen Barahona and Dora María Télles look slimmer, with dark circles under their eyes and lighter skin color. In the cells of the DAJ they remain in the dark, they receive poor nutrition, they receive the sun for a few minutes once a week, they sleep on concrete slabs and they do not have blankets to protect themselves from the cold. They have even been banned from reading material.
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The relatives of the political prisoners denounced on August 29 that the detainees present serious problems of thinness and malnutrition due to the drastic reduction in the portions of food they are given in prison.
After this complaint, the dictatorship ordered that the prisoners of conscience be brought before a judge in the Central Judicial Complex of Managua, without any reason. Other political prisoners such as presidential candidates Miguel Mora and Juan Sebastián Chamorro were also seen this day for the first time after 14 months of confinement.
The dictatorship accused them of violating Law 1055, the Sovereignty Law, a legal tool approved by the deputies of the dictatorship to persecute, imprison and prosecute opponents of the Ortega-Murillo regime.
The former guerrilla Dora María Téllez has been in prison since June 13, 2021, after police officers even monitored her home with drones, which they later raided. That day, she was arbitrarily detained after beating her, according to the complaints of her relatives. Since that date, it has only received ten visits from which the spoken portrait was built, because the dictatorship has not publicly presented the political prisoners detained in the 2021 electoral context. Téllez and Barahona were sentenced to eight years in prison. jail each.
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.
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).
