The Mesoamerican Initiative of Women Human Rights Defenders (IM Defensoras), through a digital campaign, demands that the Daniel Ortega regime release the women political prisoners, since they assure that the opponents “have not committed any crime.” At the same time, they demand that the rights of women activists be respected.
On its social networks, the organization for the defense of women in Mexico and Central America demanded under the hashtag “Que Las Liberen” respect for the human rights of Nidia Barbosa, Violeta Granera, Dora María Téllez, Samantha Jirón, Esperanza Sánchez, Suyen Barahona, Karla Escobar, Cristiana Chamorro, Evelyn Pinto, Ana Margarita Vijil, Tamara Dávila and María Oviedo, the political prisoners of Ortega.
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They emphasize that women “have not committed any crime, they are imprisoned for exercising their right to participate in the construction of a more just and egalitarian Nicaragua.” They insist that Ortega must immediately release the women imprisoned along with the other political prisoners.
In the case of Granera, who is the oldest political prisoner, they denounce that “since April 2018 she has been very active in the articulation and organization of citizen protests, being a victim of harassment and police surveillance, hate campaigns, aggressions and death threats, for which the IACHR (Inter-American Commission on Human Rights) granted precautionary measures in August 2019. Violeta is part of the Political Council of the Blue and White Unit and coordinator of the Broad Front for Democracy.”
«In March 2022, after a farce trial without the minimum procedural guarantees, Violeta was sentenced to eight years in prison for an alleged crime of “conspiracy to undermine national integrity”. She has been deprived of receiving visits from her relatives for more than 50 days. She is 70 years old and, like the other fellow political prisoners, she has been facing very severe conditions of deprivation of liberty that put her health and integrity at risk », adds the international defense organization.
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On the other hand, they denounce that Cristiana Chamorro was imprisoned for “running as a candidate for an election is not a crime, both Cristina and the other members of the Violeta Barrios de Chamorro Foundation who have been unjustly criminalized must be released. In January 2021, Cristiana Chamorro announced her aspirations to run for president and since then the government of Daniel Ortega has unleashed a campaign of defamation and harassment against her and her family,” say her defenders.
Different organizations have requested that the rights of the hostages of the regime be respected and that they be released, since they assure that “they have not committed any crime”, on the contrary, they have only denounced the repressive actions of the regime.
