Relatives of the political prisoner and general manager of the newspaper La Prensa, Juan Lorenzo Holmann Chamorro, managed to visit him for the sixteenth time at the Directorate of Judicial Assistance (DAJ), known as “El Nuevo Chipote” in Managua. During the short meeting, his relatives verified that the opponent’s health continues to deteriorate.
A source, on condition of anonymity, detailed The Press that Holman continues to have vision problems, breathing problems, and pain in the lower abdomen due to a hernia; Despite her effects, the judicial authorities continue without providing her with specialized medical care.
“He feels that he has substantially lost sight in the eye that has a problem with a dark spot since 2021,” said the source, who assured that Holmann is concerned about his vision problem.
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Likewise, the hernia located in the lower abdomen causes discomfort to the opponent, despite the fact that they allowed him to use a special belt. The political prisoner doesn’t know what it came from or what could have caused it, and the only thing they told him after an ultrasound was that it was a hernia.
John Lawrence Holmann he has also been affected by a problem breathing. “He says that he is having episodes like shortness of breath. That doesn’t know what it’s due to. He does not know if it is due to the problem in the aorta, because he did not have the opportunity to follow it up properly, “said the source, referring to the fact that the opponent has undergone heart surgery and due to his imprisonment he has not been able to attend a specialist periodically, but neither the prison authorities have followed up on him.
In addition, he pointed out that Holmann looks thinner, pale and his hands are yellowish due to confinement, despite that his spirit, his spirit continue intact.
The source also explained to La Prensa that the political prisoner no longer remains in a 2×2 meter bolted cell, but was instead changed to one with bars. Holmann is in the company of former presidential candidate Félix Maradiaga and political scientist José Antonio Peraza.
In this cell there is no access to sunlight, so they are taken out to the patio, although the sunlight does not reach them much, he stressed. “They take them out at different times so they don’t see each other,” the source added.
During the sixteenth visit, which the Ortega regime authorized from January 30 to 31, the opponent was allowed to see photographs and read letters from his daughters, as well as a ten-minute video call with them.
More than 17 months of confinement
The manager of the newspaper La Prensa was arrested on August 14, 2021, after the dictatorship raided and confiscated the newspaper’s facilities. The Ortega Prosecutor’s Office accused him of the alleged crime of money laundering, goods and assets.
The political prisoner was found guilty during a trial that lasted three days and was sentenced to nine years in jail plus a multimillion-dollar fine. Judge Nadia Camila Tardencilla Rodríguez, head of the Second Criminal District Court of Managua, was in charge of issuing the prison sentence against the opponent.
At the end of August of last year, the Ortega dictatorship exhibited him and other political prisoners in the Managua courts for supposed informational hearings. In the images disseminated by the government propaganda media, it was possible to verify the physical deterioration that he presents.
