Eddy Danilo Melendez Lacayo, 67, is one of the 35 political prisoners who are still locked up in the torture cells of the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. The Mechanism for the Recognition of Political Prisoners demands his immediate release.
The opponent was captured on July 1, 2021 and accused of the alleged crime of sexual abuse. The organization assured that the prisoner of conscience faced “a trial with clear violations of due process.”
Despite the fact that the alleged victim denied the facts, Meléndez Lacayo was sentenced to 12 years in prison by the Ortega justice system. Ortega’s hostage remains incarcerated in the Jorge Navarro Penitentiary System, known as “La Modelo.”
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Eddy Danilo Melendez Lacayo was a member of an opposition political movement and during more than 600 days in prison his health has deteriorated. The political prisoner “suffers from advanced parkinson’s so he cannot carry out many of his daily activities by himself,” the mechanism wrote on his Twitter account.
The opponent was not included in the group of 222 Nicaraguans who were released and exiled from the country, who were also stripped of their nationality by the dictatorship for being “traitors to the homeland.”
The group sent out of the country, which represents more than 80% of those detained by the regime, includes candidates for the Presidency of Nicaragua, journalists, human rights defenders and activists. The regime had accused most of the “deportees” of “treason and undermining the defense, sovereignty and self-determination for peace.”
The Mechanism for the Recognition of Political Prisoners continues to demand that the Ortega regime release the 35 political prisoners who are still languishing in Nicaraguan jails.
