Mauricio Díaz, former Nicaraguan ambassador to Costa Rica and to the Organization of American States (OAS), celebrates this November 2, 450 days since he was taken as a political prisoner by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
From August 9, 2021 to February 24, 2022, the political prisoner was in captivity in a cell of the Judicial Assistance Directorate (DAJ), known as “El Chipote”, a center where they are subjected to cruel, inhuman treatment. and degrading.
The opponent spent more than six months in prison in “El Nuevo Chipote”, as well as more than 40 political hostages imprisoned between May and November 2021, most of them accused of “treason against the country.” During the time he was in prison, he was only authorized five visits from his relatives, who were “monitored” by police officers at all times.
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The opponent was accused of the alleged crime of “conspiracy to undermine the independence, sovereignty and self-determination of Nicaragua”, then he was found guilty and sentenced to nine years in prison.
At the end of April of this year, a photograph of the prisoner of conscience circulated. The image shows Mauricio Díaz losing weight. Anonymous sources revealed that he is guarded 24 hours a day at his home by agents from the Directorate of Special Police Operations (DOEP).
Mauricio Díaz is also a national director of the outlawed Ciudadanos por la Libertad (CxL) party, he was captured by the Police at the service of the dictatorship, after he left the Public Ministry on August 9, 2021, where he appeared for questioning for giving opinions on the pre-electoral panorama of Nicaragua.
Sent home for health problems
The Ortega regime authorized the change of precautionary measure from preventive detention to home detention with police custody for former diplomat and political prisoner Mauricio Díaz Dávila, 71, due to “his state of health,” the Public Ministry reported, through a statement published midnight on February 24. That same day, political prisoner Edgard Parrales was also sent under house arrest.
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“The Public Ministry, given the state of health of the people referred to (Edgard Parrales and Mauricio Díaz), for humanitarian reasons, asked the judicial authority to change the precautionary measure from preventive detention, to house arrest, which was authorized by the corresponding judicial authority,” the statement said.
Mauricio Díaz Dávila “suffers from mental blackouts, has sudden fainting spells and has spots on various parts of his body” due to captivity and his age, according to organizations of relatives of political prisoners and human rights organizations.
