The Sandinista administration Daniel Ortega, in Nicaragua, presented this Wednesday another group of political prisoners, arrested in the framework of the 2021 elections.
On this occasion, the opposition leaders Dora María Téllez, a historic former Sandinista guerrilla fighter who fought during the Somoza dictatorship; also the president of the leftist group Unamos, Suyen Barahona; the activist Tamara Dávila and Ana Margarita Vigil.
The three women had been detained for 14 months in the maximum security cells in El Chipote, a prison where the relatives of the opponents assured that they are “isolated” places and where prisoners are “tortured”.
Some former presidential candidates were also presented, such as the political scientist Félix Maradiaga; the businessman Luis Rivas Anduray and the general manager of the newspaper La Prensa, Juan Lorenzo Holmann.
This would be the second day that the Ortega Administration features a group of political prisoners after a year of confinement in unclear hearings.
Recently, the relatives of the prisoners had denounced in a press conference the irregular situation in which they found themselves, such as isolation and “psychological torture”.
Lawyer and expert in judicial matters Yader Morazán pointed out that “nowhere in the law is it established that photographs of prisoners are suitable means of determining the physical and mental state of a person.”
“That is why the law speaks of forensic opinions,” said Morazán in this regard.
Similarly, the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh) denounced that “there is no informative hearing”, in reference to how the Ortega Administration calls for the presentation of prisoners, and according to the agency “it is a torture session against prisoners and their families that seeks to impose terror.”
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