The political prisoner Kevin Solís, a student leader who actively participated in the 2018 protests, has been in jail for more than 1,090 days. Also, he was one of those who took refuge and survived the attack on the Divine Mercy Church on July 13 and 14 of that same year.
The prisoner of conscience is confined in the maximum security pavilion, known as the “Gallery 300”, in a punishment cell called “El infiernillo”, in a space measuring 2 by 3 meters without access to natural light, in total darkness. .
Said cell does not have ventilation, remains in total isolation, has no communication with other people, is not allowed to receive sunlight or make phone calls. His family and his rights organizations have denounced that he is subjected to physical and psychological torture.
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The young man was sentenced to five years and six months in prison for the alleged crime of aggravated robbery against a Sandinista sympathizer.
On January 10, the Articulation of Social Movements (AMS) denounced, on its Twitter account, that the maximum security director of the National Penitentiary System (SPN), known as “La Modelo”, Róger Guevara, was in charge of beating and psychologically torturing the political hostage.
He also pointed out that Guevara “apart from constantly beating Kevin Solís, threatens him with” leaving prison only dead. “It is not the first time that Kevin has suffered torture, putting his life at risk, as well as those of all political prisoners in Nicaragua,” the agency added.
In April 2021, he was benefited from precautionary measures by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), an organization that considers that the opponent is in a “serious situation” in the cells of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
