Relatives of the political prisoners in Nicaragua warned about “the situation of extreme gravity and risk in which found” by prisoners of conscience in the different prisons ofl country or even those who are at home in jail and announced that they would start a day of fasting “with relief of 24 hours” in support of Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, due to the persecution he suffers from the police forces.
“In support of members of the church, who are being harassed and persecuted, taking into account that the church is made up of all of us and we will all end this fast on May 30, showing solidarity with the pain of the mothers of April and their tireless search for justice,” they said.
The Association of Relatives of Political Prisoners, the Committee for the Liberation of Political Prisoners and Prisoners of Nicaragua,
Relatives of Political Prisoners in Chipote since May 2021, the United Political Kidnapped Group and the
April Victims Organization launched “an urgent call to the people of Nicaragua and the international community” to promote all possible actions to achieve the freedom of the prisoners who “with the Over time” they have seen how “the extreme deterioration in physical health and emotional” of their relatives.
“This is an urgent call with a humanitarian sense because we are desperate for the health and condition of our relatives (…) for this reason we join the call of the Church to cry out for the release of our imprisoned relatives and for the protection of the life and integrity of every Nicaraguan,” said Berta Valle, wife of opposition leader Félix Maradiaga.
Relatives alert patterns of torture against political prisoners
At the conference they warned that the extreme deterioration claimed the lives of Hugo Torres (RIP) and actually “Nidia Barbossa you have serious heart problems, Kevin Zamora suffered a stroke and Maria Esperanza Sanchez He is presenting severe symptoms of asthma and high blood pressure.”
According to the relatives, the extreme deterioration is due to the lack of timely and specialized medical attention, unsanitary and precarious conditions in the cells, consolidation of a policy of mistreatment, punishment and control, isolation and permanent incommunicado detention for long periods of time.
“Because of the systematicity and intentionality with which we find these four elements present, We denounce that they constitute a possible pattern of torture and ill-treatment aimed at wearing down, exterminating or disabling our relatives”, they indicated in the statement read at the press conference.
Victoria Cárdenas, wife of Juan Sebastián Chamorro, insisted that they are not being given medical attention and when they are sent home to jail is when “these people are already extremely ill.”
“It is true that they are in their beds and with better food, but they are not followed up nor are they allowed medical attention and they are sent home when they are too serious,” he pointed out.
The relatives indicated that they will not stop “to sue collectively immediate freedom, unconditionally and with guarantees for the more than 182 political prisoners.”
“Until your release happens, we reiterate that their rights must be respected and their lives and physical integrity must be protected. and emotional. The policy of torture and extermination must cease”, they demanded.
