During the ninth visit that Daniel Ortega’s regime authorized —between Friday, July 22 and Sunday, July 24— to family members of political prisoners held in the Judicial Assistance Directorate (DAJ) in Managua, police abuses continued both for those who attend the meeting and against the very hostages of conscience.
Among the abuses committed by officers at the service of the Nicaraguan dictatorship against relatives of imprisoned opponents are forcing them to undress and then subjecting them to touching all parts of their bodies with the alleged argument of “knowing if they want to put something in,” what they consider sexual assault.
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Margin Pozo, life partner of the sports writer miguel mendozais one of the relatives of political prisoners who has been the object of abuse during the visits she has made to the journalist, and this time —according to the complaint— “they went too far.”
«They undress you, they touch you; that for us is humiliating. This happens on every visit and the last three times they have passed; One thing is that they review you and another is that they enjoy reviewing that way, “Pozo denounced before Article 66.
In the particular case of the also journalist, she points out that the Ortega officers forced her to take off her dress, “they touch your parts, they check your bra, your underwear, they make me take off my shoes, that for a family member is demeaning because they don’t going to visit a criminal. They —the Ortega regime— know perfectly well that the people who are there are innocent.
“Two women are in charge of reviewing me, but I don’t know why among women we are not empathic; They review you with hatred because one thing is that they do their job and another is that they do it as if they were their enemies, “she said.
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For his part, Alfredo Mairena, brother of the peasant leader and once again a political prisoner Medardo Mairena, He stated that he does not know if, on this recent visit, the family member of the prisoner of conscience suffered from abuse of authority, however, he pointed out that in the last three arrivals at “El Nuevo Chipote” he did suffer aggression.
«In the last three visits they touched her a lot, they made her take off her clothes; until today we will know if the police abuses continued, “said the brother of the former presidential candidate.
Political prisoners are seized with violence
Another of the complaints that some of the relatives of those kidnapped by the Nicaraguan regime have made is the “violent” search that they make of opponents in the cells where they are being held.”
According to Margin Pozo, the frequent searches to which Mendoza and the other political prisoners are subjected are extreme, since the Ortega officials They tie them with bridles and put them facing the wall with their heads down.
“But what are they going to seize if they can’t take anything?” reproached the communicator who, like other family members, has referred in other interviews that at the time of the hearing, the policemen in charge of “taking care of them” take photos of them. every moment and they do not move from where they are.
It is not the first time that the relatives of the political prisoners held in “El Chipote” denounce abuse of authority. In May of this year, the Renovating Democratic Union (Unamos) denounced that the relatives of political prisoners are victims of “constant harassment during visits and sexualized assaults in the search of women.”
Most of the people imprisoned in the Judicial Assistance Directorate in Managua were captured between the end of May and November 2021, prior to the presidential elections in Nicaragua, where Ortega was once again re-elected as President. The dictatorship accuses them of “treason against the country.”
