The former candidate for the Presidency of Nicaragua, the political prisoner Miguel Mora, celebrates this October 20 16 months of being confined in the cells of the Directorate of Judicial Assistance, known as “El Chipote”, a center where opponents are subjected to treatment cruel, inhuman and degrading, according to complaints from their relatives and human rights organizations.
Mora, together with a group of 26 hostages of conscience he is under solitary confinement by the dictatorial couple. Ortega and Murillo have ordered to keep them without family visits for 50 days, during all that time, the relatives have demanded information about their health and physical condition, but they only receive threats.
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Mora was sentenced by the Second Judge of the Criminal Trial District of Managua, Nadia Camila Tardencilla, to 13 years in prison, allegedly for conspiring “to undermine national integrity.” The Ortega court was sanctioned by the United States Department of State on July 15 of this year.
Tardencilla Rodríguez led the sham trials of student leaders Lesther Alemán and Max Jerez; political analyst Edgar Parrales; the general manager of the newspaper La Prensa Juan Lorenzo Holmann and the electoral expert Harry Chávez.
In the months of July and August, the political prisoner went on a hunger strike that lasted more than 50 days so that the dictatorship would let him see his son of the same name. In this situation. Miguel Mora Chávez, known as “Miguelito”, was able to see his father, Miguel Mora Barberena, for the first time, imprisoned in “El Nuevo Chipote”, since June 20, 2021.
The journalist was subjected to attacks, cyber harassment by supporters of the regime, and the equipment, frequency, and facilities of Canal 100% Noticias were confiscated. Since the end of 2018, he was imprisoned for the first time for six months in the Jorge Navarro National Penitentiary System, in Tipitapa.
