Berta Valle, wife of the political scientist and political prisoner Félix Maradiaga, met this Tuesday with deputies of different political tendencies in the European Parliament, prior to the session next Thursday, September 15, where the increase in repression against Nicaraguans will be discussed. by the Ortega regime.
“Today we have met in the European Parliament with Berta Valle. Her husband, the Nicaraguan Félix Maradiaga, has been unjustly imprisoned for more than a year by the criminal and despotic government of Ortega,” said the Popular Party MEP Gabriel Mato Adroverthrough his Twitter account.
“We cannot remain silent in the face of injustices like this,” added the parliamentarian, who added a hashtag #NicaraguaFree #HRin support of more than 200 political prisoners in Nicaragua.
For his part, the Member of the European Parliament for Spain, Leopoldo Lopez Gilof the Popular Party, and who also spoke with Berta Valle, expressed through a tweet that “we stand in solidarity with all the political prisoners of #Nicaragua».
“Today in the European Parliament we have talked with Berta Valle, wife of Félix Maradiaga, who has been in prison for more than a year by the Ortega-Murillo regime,” reported the parliamentarian of Venezuelan origin.
Also, MEP Alicia Homs of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) expressed her satisfaction at the meeting this Tuesday with Maradiaga’s wife.
«Dear Berta Valle, it has been a pleasure to see you and listen to you. With the strength that you transmit, surely you will not stop fighting until Félix Maradiaga and all the political prisoners in Nicaragua are free.
“You have the full support of @TheProgressives» added the deputy who has been one of the voices in the European Parliament that has demanded justice and freedom for Nicaraguan political prisoners.
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Since the kidnapping of Maradiaga, his wife has not stopped demanding and demanding his freedom, like the other hostages of conscience. Article 66 she tried to contact Berta Valle to find out about the conversation she had with the parliamentarians, however contact could not be established.
Kidnapping of Monsignor Álvarez reaches the PE
This Wednesday, September 14, the plenary session of the European Parliament will also hear about the kidnapping of the bishop of Matagalpa, Monsignor Rolando Álvarez. A day later, a new MEP resolution will be put to the vote that would once again condemn the actions of the Nicaraguan regime, especially the arbitrary detention of the cardinal.
MEP Leopoldo López Gil, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee and of the European Parliament’s human rights subcommittee, explained that this week the issue of Nicaragua is included in the debates of the plenary session, which will denounce “the repression exerted by the regime of the Ortega-Murillos in Nicaragua. We will denounce the persecution and violation of human rights in that country»
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“The human rights crisis in Nicaragua continues to worsen. Today there are more than 205 imprisoned for political reasons, including, unfortunately, ecclesiastical authorities such as Bishop Rolando Álvarez, who today joins the persecution against the Catholic Church and the closure of media outlets managed by it,” López denounced. Gil in a video posted on his Twitter account.
The MEPs have approved five resolutions that condemn the serious situation of human rights in Nicaragua. One of the pressure measures that they intend to exert against Ortega and Murillo is the revision of the clause of respect for human rights.
«… the Union is concerned about the non-compliance with the clause of respect for human rights of the same. For this reason, from the European Parliament this week we denounced the Ortega Murillo regime as a violator of the rights of the Nicaraguan people, who are not alone in the struggle to retake their democracy,” said López Gil.
To date, the dictatorship keeps 205 political prisoners behind bars, including nine Catholic priests, all of whom, according to their families, have had their human rights violated.
