The political prisoners held in the Directorate of Judicial Assistance (DAJ), known as “El Nuevo Chipote”, serve more than 47 days in solitary confinement. His relatives are concerned about his current state of health.
In a warning signal, Berta Valle, wife of political prisoner Félix Maradiaga, asked for “Help! It has been more than 47 days since the last (visit) that we learned how our relatives who are imprisoned in El Chipote are doing. It is distressing not knowing how my husband is. We demand to know how the people who started a hunger strike are doing,” the human rights defender expressed through social networks.
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According to information obtained by the relatives of the opponents, the condition of the conscientious hostages “has worsened.” He worries that they will “die in jail.”
Félix Maradiaga began his hunger strike in July, without obtaining answers to his demand for respect for his human rights in prison. He was presented to the propaganda media of the dictatorship at the end of August and beginning of September, where his weight loss and the damage caused by more than a year of forced confinement were notorious.
Maradiaga was sentenced along with presidential candidate Juan Sebastián Chamorro to 13 years in prison for the crimes of “conspiracy to undermine sovereignty.” The hostages of conscience faced seven hearings that, according to their defenders, were “riddled with irregularities.”
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In addition to Maradiaga, three other political prisoners are also demanding respect for their rights, including visits from their young children whom they have not seen since their captivity. The hostages on indefinite fast are sportswriter Miguel Mendoza and lawyer and member of the Political Council of the Blue and White National Unity (UNAB), Róger Reyes.
Another area of conscience who demands to be allowed to have a call with her five-year-old son is Suyen Barahona, president of the Unión Democrática Renovadora (Unamos) who has been separated from her little boy since she was arrested by the Ortega Murillo regime Police in June last year on the eve of presidential elections that were ignored by the international community. Barahona’s husband said that for a child under five to grow up away from her mother “is torture” for both the child and the parent.
