Political prisoner Alex Hernández turns 31 this Sunday, November 13. It is the second birthday that he spends locked up in the cells of the Judicial Assistance Directorate (DAJ), known as “El Chipote”, a center where he receives cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, according to complaints from his family before human rights organizations. .
The member of the opposition Blue and White National Unity (Unab) has been in isolation and incommunicado for more than two months with his relatives, after the last visit they authorized between August 26 and 28.
One of the relatives of the prisoner of conscience spoke on condition of anonymity to Article 66 that «this is terrible, we have not seen it; We are uncertain because we do not know how he is. We know that every minute you spend locked up is exasperating.
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«Alex Hernandez turns 31 today. It is his second birthday in El Chipote, a prison of the dictatorship where he is subjected to torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. We demand that he be released », UNAB recalled on its social networks.
On the first of September, the dictatorship exhibited to the political prisoner Alex Hernández, originally from the municipality of Catarina, Masaya, in front of official media, when he included him in a third block of opponents presented at the Central Judicial Complex of Managua for a supposed “informative hearing.”
Álex Hernández was arrested on August 23, 2021, less than three months before the disputed presidential elections of November 2021, in a day of hunting opponents that included seven presidential candidates.
In March of this year, the justice of the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo sentenced him to ten years in prison for the alleged crime of “conspiring to undermine national integrity” to the detriment of the State of Nicaragua and Nicaraguan society. He was also disqualified from holding public office for the same period. The trial was conducted by the judge Felix Salmeron Moreno, of the Fifth Criminal Trial District of Managua.
