The former Nicaraguan ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS) Arturo McFields described as “cruelty” the exhibition that the Ortega regime made with 27 captive political prisoners in “El Nuevo Chipote” whom he presented in the Managua courts.
“This is not proof of life, it is proof of cruelty and infinite hatred,” the former diplomat exiled in the United States said on Twitter.
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He added that each image “of the cruel circus is irrefutable evidence of the crimes against humanity of the dictatorship of #Nicaragua». However, he affirmed encouraged «that God sometimes delays but never forgets; they will soon be free.
Despite the fact that the relatives of the political prisoners have denounced the precarious situation they live in confinement in the Directorate of Judicial Assistance (DAJ), the dictatorship affirms that they are in “good health.”
Political prisoners are being subjected to cruel and inhuman treatment
For its part, the Autonomous Women’s Movement of Nicaragua (MAM-Nicaragua) pointed out that the images of political prisoners “hurt because they are being subjected to cruel and inhuman treatment.”
However, he pointed out that the photographs released by the government propaganda media show “the image of dignity. They are great women, while their jailers diminish in their infamies».
In the third consecutive exhibition this week, the human rights defense attorney Mary Oviedo and the opponent Violet Barn They looked thin, and with gaunt faces, but their gazes remained firm in the face of the courts and the media harassment of the Ortega regime.
In the “informative” hearing, as the government of Daniel Ortega has named it, the courts have informed the political prisoners about the process against them, not allowing the accused to speak.
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This is the first time that the Nicaraguan justice has presented the opponents detained after a year in prison in the cells of “El Nuevo Chipote”, but until now it has not shown any signs of wanting to release them.
To date, the Ortega dictatorship maintains more than 190 political prisoners —including Catholic priests— in the country’s different prisons, whom it accuses of common crimes or alleged “treason against the country.”
