On the occasion of the International Day of the Girl, the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh) reiterates its complaint against the regime of Daniel Ortega for denying minor daughters of prisoners and political prisoners to visit them.
“In Nicaragua there are girls who have their mothers and fathers imprisoned unjustly, the Ortega Murillo regime does not allow them to see them or even listen to them through a call,” the agency exposed through its Twitter account with the hashtag #MoreRightsForGirls #YouHaveToSeeYourPadresYMothers.
Cenidh’s demand joins that of dozens of relatives of political prisoners who have demanded that the Nicaraguan dictatorship establish spaces for communication between the detainees and their descendants.
Hard hand against prisoners of “El Chipote”
Unlike the prisoners held in the different Nicaraguan prisons where the girls can visit their fathers and mothers who are political prisoners, Ortega’s justice system has denied that right to opponents in “El Nuevo Chipote.”
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To date, only the daughter of the political prisoner Tamara Dávila has been able to see her on one occasion, after the member of Unamos began a hunger strike demanding to be able to see her daughter, however, more than 40 days have passed and no was able to see her again.
In the cases of Róger Reyes, Félix Maradiaga, journalist Miguel Mendoza, Suyen Barahona, among other detainees, they have been denied the same right. In the case of Maradiaga, they have not allowed a phone call to be able to speak with his little daughter.
Faced with this refusal by Ortega, Mendoza’s life partner, Margin Pozo, told Article 66 not lose hope that Alejandra Mendoza, daughter of the prisoner of conscience will be able to see him.
“We continue to demand that Alejandra be allowed to see her father, she is an 8-year-old girl who needs her affection to be happy,” she expressed it in one of her writings.
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«She has rights and the only thing she asks for is a hug from him. As a mother, her suffering hurts me. Three days ago she got sick again. She states that her heart will not resist if she does not see her daddy. It really is a desperate and painful situation, “added the also worried journalist.
The Ortega regime keeps more than 200 political prisoners in prison. More than thirty are held captive in the Judicial Assistance Directorate (DAJ) in Managua, whose rights have been violated, such as being visited by their children, reading a Bible and even being able to consume food sent by their relatives.
