Unamos directors, a year in the cells of “El Chipote”

The dictatorship ordered the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) to open criminal proceedings against the six opposition leaders and sent them to political trial where they were found guilty of the alleged crime of “conspiracy to undermine national integrity.”

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Tinoco was sentenced to 13 years in prison; Ana Margarita Vijil was sentenced to 10 years in prison and Tamara Dávila, Dora María Téllez and Suyen Barahona, to 8 years each.

“Today our friends, leaders of our party and tireless fighters for the freedom and human rights of all Nicaraguans are celebrating a year in illegal detention… they are paying with their freedom and their health for their commitment to democracy and progress for all. and all. Our vice president, Hugo Torres, paid for it with his life,” the political organization said in a statement.

Unamos assures that its members in prison “remain firm and dignified without their confidence in a democratic, fair and supportive Nicaragua having weakened.”

without seeing their children

The opponents have been imprisoned for a year and those who are mothers or fathers are not allowed to have any type of contact with their minor sons and daughters, as is the case of Suyen Barahona and Tamara Dávila.

«They keep them locked up alone, their youngest children ask for their mothers and they cannot understand their absence, is there perhaps a greater pain for a mother? And yet they do not doubt, they do not hate, they do not fear, nor have they stopped dreaming. They represent a totally new class of political leadership, one that does not traffic in its principles even under the most dire conditions, and so they renew our conviction in a free and democratic future for our country,” she explains.

“We, your colleagues and colleagues from Unamos feel deeply proud and on this date we send you all our love and admiration. They and they transcend the limits of a party, they are from Nicaragua », he adds.

arrests

On the morning of June 13, 2021, the sanctioned Police arbitrarily raided the home of former Sandinista guerrilla Dora María Téllez and arrested her along with Ana Margarita Vijil. About three hours before the raid, at least two police and motorized patrols surrounded the ex-combatant’s home, while a drone flew over the property.

Hours later, the president of Unamos, Suyen Barahona, was arrested at her home in Managua. “These actions against the leadership of Unamos are part of the repressive escalation of Ortega, against the entire democratic opposition,” denounced the directive of that political group.

Around 9:00 at night, Víctor Hugo Tinoco was kidnapped by civilians who were traveling in a Hilux truck, in the vicinity of Galerías Santo Domingo, municipality of Managua. Hours before, at around six in the afternoon, his family warned that a police patrol was holding him, but they let him go; however, the regime’s operators carried out his intention some time later.

A few hours later Hugo Torres Jiménez was also arrested, who died after 244 days in detention and for whom there is no official version of his death. International, political and human rights organizations have demanded an exhaustive investigation to find out the conditions of his death.

To the leaders of Unamos, now political prisoners, he was accused of violating Law 1055 for allegedly “undermining the sovereignty of Nicaragua” and for “inciting foreign interference in internal affairs and requesting military interventions,” the Police reported in various press releases. Like the rest of opponents who have been imprisoned under the so-called “Sovereignty Law.”