The sports writer and political prisoner miguel mendoza urbina He has been imprisoned for one year in the Directorate of Judicial Assistance (DAJ) known as “El Nuevo Chipote”, in Managua.
In interview with Article 66Margin Pozo, life partner of the prisoner of conscience, said that these 365 days have been difficult and full of uncertainties, anguish and pain. «For the girl —Alejandra Mendoza, eight years old— it is very difficult, because she has not been able to see or hug him for a year. In one year I have only been able to see it eight times.
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He stressed that these 12 months in captivity in the regime’s cells have been unfair, because “Miguel was sentenced to nine years in prison without committing any crime, only for expressing himself freely, for practicing journalism.”
Pozo also denounced that this year the situations continue to be the same for both Mendoza and the other political prisoners locked up in “El Chipote.” “He spent almost a year in a punishment cell, in a place where almost no lighting entered him, and currently they do not take him out to sunbathe,” he reproached.
“The conditions continue to be inhumane, the food is not polite or ideal for a chronic patient like him. They do not allow you to read. A year without being able to read anything, not even the Bible is allowed; neither is the entry of a quilt to protect oneself from the cold…». he added he.
Mendoza’s daughter: “I will be the only girl in the classroom who will not have a father on Father’s Day”
Miguel Mendoza’s little daughter also turns a year without being able to see him; and it’s two years of not being able to celebrate Father’s Day, since two days (June 21, 2021) from June 23, the Police kidnapped the sports writer.
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«A year has the girl without being able to listen to him, more than because of the videos published by Miguel, but he has not had a minimum communication, not a phone call. Father’s Day is coming, she has worked on a detail at school for her father, “she recalled.
«The girl told me that she will be the only girl in the classroom who is not going to have a father. She told me: I want to see my dad because I need to hug him, tell him that I love him, that I miss him. Why am I not allowed to see it? If I have the right, “said the also journalist.
Miguel will fast
Regarding the religious faith of Miguel Mendoza, Margin Pozo affirmed that the faith and strength of the journalist is admirable, because “being in conditions where you cannot see your family, until they authorize it, anyone gets depressed.”
“I admire Miguel’s quality as a journalist, as a human being, his strength and his faith in God; his faith is intact; and he has really been God who has given him that strength and the desire to continue living, to continue with the hope that he will come out at some point. Without a doubt, God is the main engine in his life and in ours».
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One year after the arbitrary arrest, Mendoza fasts “offering it to God, trusting in the Lord that his freedom is near. Miguel does not lose his faith, nor do we, like his family », confirmed the life partner of the political hostage.
Pozo, who has had to be a father and mother to her daughter, due to the confinement that Mendoza is experiencing, stated with aplomb that her faith is placed in God «and I have always shared it on my social networks that our faith is placed in God and God is the judge par excellence and we trust that he will come out, because Miguel is innocent.
The arbitrary detention of Mendoza
On the night of June 21, 2021, the sports journalist was arrested by the Police at the service of the Daniel Ortega regime. To capture him, they raided his home where his little daughter and his life partner, Margin Pozo, were.
The justice of the dictatorship found the journalist guilty of the crime of “conspiracy to undermine national integrity,” in accordance with the controversial Law 1055. He was sentenced to nine years in prison. In addition, he was disqualified from holding public office.
Mendoza is one of the 46 opponents arrested in 2021, months before the general elections in November, in which Daniel Ortega was enthroned in power in his fourth consecutive term since he returned to the Presidency in 2007.
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In recent years, the sports writer used his social networks to comment on human rights violations. Among the main pieces of evidence presented by the Public Ministry for the Judiciary to declare him guilty are at least 30 Twitter and Facebook posts that Mendoza shared against the Ortega dictatorship.
«We never imagined that Miguel —Mendoza— was arrested, because he has never committed any crime. Miguel never imagined that his posts on social networks would cause so much trouble to the point of being arrested, that is why as a family we will continue to demand his freedom, “said his life partner, who assures that his greatest wish is for the political prisoner to return home with his family.
