The Reflection Group of Former Political Prisoners (GREX), at the beginning of this month of December and on the occasion of the Christmas and New Year holidays, began the “Christmas without political prisoners” campaign, disseminating information daily about the more than 40 people that the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo keeps locked up in the different prisons of Nicaragua.
«This Christmas, we must walk firmly and confidently towards freedom, in the face of a rotten, immoral and decadent regime. We have to be clear that the release of all political prisoners in Nicaragua must first be the result of a daily effort by all Nicaraguans, inside and outside the country,” GREX indicated in its first publication.
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In addition, he urged Nicaraguans to take actions of civic resistance, mentioning among them not attending businesses run by agents of the regime, saving on expenses so that the income of the regime is lower, investing remittances well and buying in places where businesses are low. the fixed fee regime.
For those residing abroad, the Group encouraged them to continue demanding sanctions and pressure on the Sandinista regime.
«Let’s celebrate Christmas 2024 with our eyes fixed on the freedom that we must conquer. A Christmas with hope, a spirit of resistance and struggle,” the group wrote on their social networks.
Daily demands for freedom
The GREX campaign, through social networks, has included the dissemination of videos in which it has daily demanded freedom for different political prisoners, among them: Eddy González, Wilfredo Balmaceda, Marvin Vargas, Walmer Ruiz Rivera, Isaías Castro Ruiz, Eddy Gutiérrez, José Ricardo Cortez, Zacarías Cano Angulo, Lesbia Gutiérrez, Rosendo Huerta, Jonathan López, Carlos Alberto Vanegas Gómez, Víctor Boitano Coleman, Eliseo Castro, Edgar Cárcamo, Evelyn Susana Guillén Zepeda, Jaime Navarrete Blandón, Beyker Ferreti, Leo Cárcamo and Eddy Meléndez.
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Also, they demanded freedom for political prisoners of the regime who were captured prior to the 2018 protests, among them José Olivar, Leonel Poveda and Jairo Obando.
The GREX assured that these three have been imprisoned for more than 10 years by the Ortega dictatorship, which “does not want to release them” and keeps them “incarcerated in the disastrous 300 and they have had 11 Christmases without their children, wives, rotting in jail, and with “terrible medical care.”
In addition, they have demanded the release of the Mayangna indigenous people Donald Bruno Arcángel, Dionisio Robbins Zacarías and Evertz Antonio Bruno Palacios, Ignacio Celso Lino and Argüello Celso Lino, whom the regime, according to GREX, unjustly incriminated and imprisoned.
