the political prisoner Medardo Mairena He will receive this Saturday, July 23, his ninth hearing in more than a year in jail. His relatives will go to the Judicial Assistance Directorate (DAJ) known as “El Nuevo Chipote” in Managua, where the peasant leader has been held since July 5, 2021.
Alfredo Mairena, brother of the presidential candidate, informed Article 66 that the visit will be at noon. The prisoner of conscience will know until today about the death of his brother Ezekiel Mairena31, who died in the early hours of June 25, after suffering a traffic accident on the El Rama-Managua highway.
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Journalistic information indicates that on the night of Thursday, June 23, Mairena, together with four people, was traveling in a RS1370 license plate truck that was transporting various products. Upon reaching a hill at kilometer 162 of the Juigalpa-El Rama highway, the truck overturned trying to avoid two pipes.
“The difficult thing for Medardo -Mairena- will be knowing the news that his brother died or we don’t know if the Police have already told him as a way to torture him and make him feel bad,” said the opponent’s brother.
He added that the peasant leader was very close to his deceased brother. «Ezequiel was one of the younger brothers, they always hung out together. In total we were 11 siblings from father and mother. This will be a hard blow for Medardo, because he will never see him again », he recalled.
Regime denied Mairena’s attendance at the funeral
Mairena emphasized that the opponent “could not even be at the funeral, because they did not allow him. This is typical of a dictatorship, which denies him his rights, imagine that the visits are almost every two months. All the processes are being carried out out of the ordinary, because everything is at the disposal of the dictatorship », she pointed out.
It should be noted that in the face of the tragedy, the relatives called the authorities of “El Nuevo Chipote”, in Managua, to ask them that the peasant leader could attend the candlelight or the funeral; however, they received no response.
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“El Chipote has been called repeatedly and, well, they order legal paperwork two days later… because the courts are not open today. They have not agreed and now that they are called they no longer respond. They are being asked to, even if it is, allow us to speak with him (Medardo) to inform him of the unfortunate news, but they are silent, they do not answer, “Alfredo lamented at the time.
On February 18 of this year, the Nicaraguan justice sentenced Medardo Mairena, sentencing him to 13 years in prison. The hostage of conscience faced on the 9th of the same month, a judicial process described as “illegal” in “El Nuevo Chipote”.
