Since June 3 of this year, the authorities of the Jorge Navarro Penitentiary System, known as “La Modelo” in Tipitapa, sent the political prisoner to maximum cells, known as 300. William William Antonio Caldera Navarrete, Originally from Masaya.
Sources linked to the prison revealed to Article 66 that the 41-year-old political prisoner was changed cells under the excuse that it was for “security of the country” that his rights were violated, including access to a Bible and personal hygiene supplies.
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“The inmate is not entitled to even have a sheet to cover himself from mosquitoes, and his children are not allowed to hug him. They give him 40 minutes of sight and through a glass, “revealed the source on condition of anonymity.
It was also learned that Caldera Navarrete is only allowed one visit per month every 30 days, through phone calls and for a piece of glass. According to the opponent, he has vision problems and they do not give him access to his glasses. He has ear problems, back pain and hives on his skin.
According to the source consulted, like the political prisoners held in the Directorate of Aid (DAJ) in Managua, the prisoners of the other prisons have lost weight. «There is also torture in that place; They have Navarrete in a cell, they only open a window for him to pass out food.”
The extreme of “surveillance” of the Ortega dictatorship —according to witnesses— is that William Caldera has been prohibited from speaking with the people who bring him food.
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On September 14, the political prisoner will celebrate two years of having been kidnapped by the Daniel Ortega Police, after, in 2020, they raided their homes to later accuse them of common crimes related to drugs, weapons and explosives.
Ortega judge Nancy Aguirre sentenced him to 16 years and nine months in prison along with the new prisoner of conscience Danny García, and ordered him to pay a total fine of 46,400 córdobas for three crimes that, according to their defense attorneys, never occurred. they committed. Caldera is one of the more than 200 political prisoners in Nicaragua, persecuted for having participated in the social protests of 2018.
