The sports writer and political prisoner miguel mendoza up this Thursday, November 3, to 500 days of arbitrary detention in the Directorate of Judicial Assistance (DAJ), known as “El Nuevo Chipote”, in Managua.
The prisoner of conscience has been on a hunger strike for 46 days so that the Nicaraguan regime allows him to reunite with his eight-year-old daughter Alejandra, whom he has not seen since June 21, 2021, when he was kidnapped by the Police.
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Given the refusal of the Ortega justice system for the journalist to see the minor, her family continues to demand that she no longer be denied her right. “-Miguel Mendoza- they have deprived you of all your rights and have not only psychologically tortured you, but also your daughter Alejandra,” their relatives expressed through the sports chronicler’s Facebook account.
They remarked that during his captivity in “El Nuevo Chipote” the dictatorship has not allowed Mendoza “not even to send a drawing. The emotional damage they are doing is cruel and inhumane.”
In the publication on social networks, the relatives of the political prisoner attached an image with the demand that the minor has sustained for months to be allowed to visit him. “Daddy, I need to see you. I love you”, they highlighted.
The journalist and critic of the government of Daniel Ortega was convicted of the crimes of conspiracy to undermine national integrity and propagation of false news. The “evidence” was the posts on his Twitter account. The Ortega justice sentenced him to nine years in prison.
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During his confinement, Miguel Mendoza has lost more than 30 pounds in weight and when he was presented in the courts of Managua he was noticeably thin. His relatives have denounced that he suffers from several illnesses that are not treated by a specialist doctor, a situation that is repeated with all the detainees in the cells of the Nicaraguan dictatorship.
More than two months ago was the last visit that the dictatorship allowed the relatives of Miguel Mendoza, for which they fear the repercussions on his physical condition. His life partner, Margin Pozo, concluded by demanding that “there be visits and that Alejandra can enter. She is a girl and she has rights».
