MEP Javier Nart insisted on his request to be able to visit Dora María Téllez in prison. In a letter sent to Irana Venerio Fernández, Nicaraguan ambassador to the European Union (EU), the parliamentarian asks Ortega’s delegate to convey to the dictator Daniel Ortega his desire to see the guerrilla commander and her other “heroic companions of struggle» imprisoned by the regime.
«I express my deep concern about the situation of Dora María Téllez, a leading figure in the recent history of Nicaragua. His participation in the fight for the freedom of the Nicaraguan people is a heroic milestone as a member of that Sandinista National Liberation Front, of that fight that admired the world against the indecent dictatorship of the Somoza dynasty,” Nart said in the letter to the emissary. of Ortega in the EU.
The MEP declares himself “proud” of having been a participant in that fight against Somoza and having shared arms with Dora María Téllez, of whom he highlighted was Minister of Health and founder of the Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS), current Democratic Renovation Union (Unamos).
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«Currently Dora Maria Téllez (the mythical “Comandante Dos”), is suffering prison conditions that I thought had ended on July 18. That the medieval dungeons of the Somozas would no longer exist in Nicaragua. You know what my position is regarding the current situation in Nicaragua », she denounced.
Nart asked the regime’s ambassador who transferred him to the Nicaraguan authorities that “Dora Maria Téllez’s prison conditions be those corresponding to the minimum standards of the so-called civilized international community.”
The MEP assured that “it breaks his soul to know the unspeakable prison conditions (solitary confinement, absence of light, poor nutrition, isolation from contact with relatives…) for defending the ideals of the authentic FSLN that are betrayed today.”
Finally, Nart recalled the death in prison of Hugo Torres, “comandante dos”, who assaulted the house of Chema Castillo and achieved the release of a group of political prisoners, including Daniel Ortega, his jailer and executioner who left him to die. in prison
through the campaign “Release Chains” Driven by the Casla Institute, Nart sponsored Dora María Téllez, who has been in prison since June 13, 2021. The Sandinista dissident was sentenced to eight years in prison for crimes considered “treason.”
Téllez has been on a hunger strike for more than three weeks demanding an end to his isolation, a balanced diet and access to reading material.
