The activist and member of the Renewing Democratic Union (let’s unite) Yader Parajón This Wednesday, January 18, he has been arbitrarily detained for 500 days in the cells of the Evaristo Vásquez Police Complex, known as “El Nuevo Chipote”, a torture center that the Daniel Ortega dictatorship uses to imprison and silence the voices of its critics.
The opponent was captured by the Police of the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo on September 4, 2021. The young man was trying to leave Nicaragua through the border with Honduras, in El Guasaule.
On September 1st, the regime showed Parajón before the official cameras. He looked thinner, with dark circles under his eyes and a lighter skin color. The photographs show the consequences that more than a year of confinement have left on the opponent.
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Faced with this situation, a brother of the political prisoner expressed to Article 66 that it was “sad to see him in pictures, how skinny he is, it was not the body he had before. I have not been able to see him since he was arrested, but it is obvious that he is not having a good time ».
He affirmed that it was “happy to see him with his head held high, because he has not committed anything wrong, he is innocent; what he did was claim and demand justice for the death of our other brother ».
In addition, Miguel Parajonfather of the prisoner of conscience, said that although he has managed to see him on several occasions in “El Chipote”, it was hard to see him “as a criminal” because he has not done anything.
Yader Parajón was accused by the Public Ministry, at the service of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, for the alleged crime of “conspiracy to commit impairment of national integrity”, protected by the controversial Law 1055 or Sovereignty Law and for violating Law 1042 , Special Cybercrime Law for spreading “false news”.
The Thirteenth Criminal Trial Judge, Ulisa Yahoska Tapia Silva, sentenced the opponent to 10 years in prison for the alleged crime and inhibited him from holding public office for the same period.
The member of Unamos is part of the more than 230 opponents that the Ortega and Murillo regime keep locked up in the different prisons of the country.
