The Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh) denounced and warned about the situation that the student leader Lesther Alemán is going through, who is presenting “deterioration in his health”, which has been generated due to “his confinement, poor or no medical assistance , lack of sun and poor nutrition, “says the body.
«Lesther Alemán’s health worsens every day, his leg problem continues, his migraine. But now he also has problems with hypertension, high blood pressure and tachycardia. We demand his immediate freedom! It is the responsibility of the Ortega-Murillo regime to guarantee his health and his life,” Cenidh said in a tweet.
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After 10 months of confinement in the cells of the Directorate of Judicial Assistance, the political prisoner looks increasingly deteriorated in health, according to his relatives. In an interview for the program Esta Noche, the mother of the young opponent commented that on the last visit she was able to verify that the problem with his leg persists and the authorities refuse to provide him with medical attention.
«They had said that they were going to do some plates, then they told him that they were going to do a tomography to diagnose what Lesther’s problem is and to date (they have done nothing), that was about the fourth visit, and Lesther continues with that problem, “said Lesbia Alfaro, mother of the opponent.
He denounced that «Lesther is decompensating in three things, the leg, now pressure and the migraine, that the migraine gets worse every day; she says that in the afternoon he vomits, that pain that he can’t stand », she also added that sometimes the authorities of El Chipote do not give her the medicine that she takes to her son to treat the problems in the her leg.
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Alemán’s mother pointed out that the food continues to be “terrible” and the constant torture and interrogations persist, not only for Alemán, but also against other prisoners of conscience. “Daily there are interrogations for everyone, because I ask when we meet with the other relatives and we agree that the interrogations continue for everyone,” added Alfaro.
On February 10, he was sentenced to 13 years in prison for allegedly “conspiring to undermine national integrity.” The verdict was handed down by the Second Judge of the Criminal Trial District, Nadia Camila Tardencilla.
