The lawyer Róger Reyes celebrates this Friday, October 14, 420 days of being detained in the cells of the Directorate of Judicial Assistance (DAJ), known as “El Chipote”, a center where he is subjected to torture, his relatives have denounced in various occasions.
The political prisoner has been on a hunger strike for 26 days. He demands that the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo allow him to see his three and five-year-old daughters with whom he has had no contact since he was apprehended by the Police.
Reyes was the defense attorney for the political prisoner and former Nicaraguan presidential candidate Félix Maradiaga. In addition, he is a member of the Political Council of the opposition Blue and White National Unity (Unab), an organization that has repeatedly demanded his immediate and unconditional release.
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The prisoner of conscience and others 26 prisoners They have been held incommunicado for 49 days since the last family visit they granted him at the end of last August. His relatives have expressed their concern at not having information about them and they fear for their health and physical condition, which has been diminished by the cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment they receive in prison.
The hostage of conscience was taken to the Managua courts on August 31, a few days after the last visit of his relatives, and exhibited before the propaganda media of the presidential family. Reyes wore a lighter, thinner skin tone due to prison conditions and torture.
Róger Reyes was arrested in the vicinity of the Puma de la Pista Suburbana gas station on August 20, 2022. The Public Ministry, controlled by the Daniel Ortega dictatorship, accused Reyes, 36, of “carrying out acts that undermine the independence , sovereignty and self-determination of Nicaragua».
During his confinement, Reyes has developed illnesses such as constipation, depression and insomnia problems, illnesses that he did not suffer from prior to the captivity of which he is a victim of the Ortega-Murillo regime.
The Ortega justice sentenced Róger Reyes to ten years in prison for the alleged crime of “conspiring to undermine national integrity.” He was also disqualified from holding public office until the completion of his sentence.
