The regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo continues to deny the right of children to see and communicate with their fathers and mothers who were taken as political prisoners by the dictatorship on the eve of the 2021 presidential elections.
The relatives of the sports writer Miguel Mendoza and the president of the Renovating Democratic Union (Unamos), Suyen Barahona, continue to demand that the dictatorial couple allow them to see their little ones after more than a year of forced separation.
«Six days on hunger strike. We demand that you be allowed to see Alejandra. Her health is at risk. Being held incommunicado is psychological torture,” Miguel Mendoza’s family wrote on their social networks.
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The journalist has not seen his daughter for 460 days, the dictatorship does not allow him to receive any kind of written or video messages from Alejandra, eight years old. The girl has written messages that are published on the chronicler’s social accounts.
As a result of the forced separation between the journalist and his daughter, for more than 15 months, the girl has developed anxiety by not having her father present and is “desperate” to see him.
On September 19, journalist Miguel Mendoza began a hunger strike with the aim of pressuring the Nicaraguan regime to allow him to see his daughter Alejandra, according to his relatives.
The journalist was arrested at his home on June 21, 2021. The regime imprisoned the sports writer for allegedly “conspiring to undermine national integrity” and “spreading false news.” He was sentenced to nine years in prison. In addition, he was disqualified from holding public office.
The family of political prisoner Suyen Barahona began a campaign this week to allow her at least one phone call with her five-year-old son, with whom she has had no contact since June 2021.
Barahona’s husband said that for a child under five, growing up away from his mother “is torture” for both the child and the parent.
