The lawyer and political prisoner, Róger Reyes, began a hunger strike in the El Chipote prison so that the Ortega regime allows the visit of his two daughtersthree and five years old, whom he has not seen for more than a year.
Fernanda Guevara, wife of Kings, told the Article 66 news site that the lawyer started this strike days ago. “Roger told me that if he was not granted a visit with his daughters before September 20, he would start a hunger strike,” he said.
We demand from the regime that political prisoners be able to see and communicate with their sons and daughters. Roger Reyes started a hunger strike so that the dictatorship would let him see his three and five year old daughters. #FreedomNow pic.twitter.com/2EWVJ9eZjm
— Blue and White National Unity (@UnidadNic) September 24, 2022
Reyes, member of the Political Council of the Blue and White National Unity (UNAB), He was arrested on August 20, 2021, and since then he has not seen his daughters. The Ortega justice sentenced him to ten years in prison for alleged “conspiracy.”
For a CONFIDENTIAL reportGuevara revealed that his daughters do not know that their father is imprisoned in El Chipote and they suffer because “it has taken a long time” to return from work.
He explained that as a family they decided not to tell them about the arrest and that, anticipating the kidnapping, the political prisoner prepared a video where he tells them how much he loves them and that he is working.
“When they ask about him, cry or go into a crisis because they haven’t seen him, I play the video he left for them, I show them videos where he is speaking, I show them photos and we pray for him, one moment each, so that he returns soon. ”, recounted the wife.
Join other political prisoners
Reyes has presented various physical and psychological ailments in prison. He has suffered from depression, stress, severe headaches, was in isolation and on a hunger strike to demand mental health care, according to relatives.
The lawyer joined the political prisoners miguel mendoza Y Dora Maria Tellezalso in El Chipote, who this week began a hunger strike. The sports writer demands that he be allowed to see his nine-year-old daughterwhile the former guerrilla commander demands an end to solitary confinement, after more than 460 days in jail.
In a statement, relatives of Mendoza pointed out that Miguel is aware of the health risks he runs, but considers that it is the only way out to be with his daughter, after more than 15 months without seeing her.
Sources from human rights organizations indicated that Téllez also demands to have access to reading material and that they allow you to sign a power of attorney for your relatives to withdraw your retirement pension
Also, relatives of the political prisoner Suyen Barahonaimprisoned for 15 months in El Chipote, asked the government to allow the opponent at least one phone call with her five-year-old son, with whom she has not had any contact since June 2021.
CONFIDENTIAL confirmed, with reports from human rights defenders and relatives of prisoners of conscience, that at least 18 minors still do not see or have any kind of communication with their parentsunjustly imprisoned in 2021.
