The political leader of the extinct Citizens for Freedom (CxL) party Pedro Joaquín Chamorro was sent home under house arrest, according to a source close to this party organization.
Another source linked to the Civic Alliance confirmed that Chamorro is already at home and that he was sent home “due to health problems,” without providing further details.
Article 66 has tried to contact Chamorro’s wife, Martha Lucía Urcuyo, but as of the closing of this edition she did not respond to our query. Neither the CxL Party nor its president, Kitty Monterrey, have spoken.
The Ortega regime keeps more than 170 political prisoners imprisoned and in recent weeks decided to send some five prisoners of conscience who are over 70 years old to their home, after the opposition leader and Sandinista dissident, former retired general Hugo Torres, died in prison. , who died in the hands of Ortega in conditions that until now remain a mystery.
Among the political prisoners who are under house arrest are the liberal politician José Pallais, the former ambassador to the OAS Edgard Parrales, the professor and former presidential candidate Arturo Cruz and the former foreign minister Francisco Aguirre Sacasa.
Presidential hopeful Cristiana Chamorro, political commentator Jaime Arellano, conservative politician Noel Vidaurre, and the wife of former president Arnoldo Alemán, María Fernanda Flores de Alemán, have also remained in jail since they were imprisoned.
Other elderly opposition leaders are still locked up in the prisons of the dictatorship, such as the activist Violeta Granera, the leaders of the Renovating Democratic Union (Unamos) Dora María Téllez and Víctor Hugo Tinoco. From Granera and Tinoco, their relatives have denounced that they have health problems, typical of their age, but the Ortega dictatorship has decided to keep them in the El Chipote prisons.
The activist Daysi George, leader of the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy, consulted for this article, said she was unaware of the situation of Pedro Joaquín Chamorro, but assured that in her organization, formed after the April 2018 rebellion, in the context of the National Dialogue that was convened by the Catholic Church, “we continue to demand and demand the release of political prisoners, because loving your country and seeking the common good is not a crime, therefore, we demand that all political prisoners must be free ».
Daysi George also insisted that “Mr. Chamorro’s change of measure is a demand, and we continue to demand the release of all political prisoners because they are innocent of all the charges against them.”
