The Renovating Democratic Union (Unamos) joined the clamor of the relatives of the more than 190 political prisoners who demand that the dictatorship open the doors of “El Chipote” so that the physical health of the prisoners who are detained in the various prisons in Nicaragua by the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
In their social networks they have published the photographs of the political prisoners who have already served a year of confinement in the cells of the Directorate of Judicial Assistance (DAJ), known as “El Chipote”, where they are subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. that have diminished their health, according to statements by their relatives who visit them when the dictatorship allows it, eight times in more than a year.
“We demand that El Chipote be opened to relatives of political prisoners, the ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross), the IACHR (Inter-American Commission on Human Rights) and the group of independent experts of the UN (United Nations Organization) . This is the only way to verify your health condition. SHOW THEM! Open Chipote!” the political organization wrote on its Twitter account accompanied by a photo of political prisoner Ana Margarita Vijil, former president of Unamos and arrested a year ago.
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Vijil’s mother, María Josefina Gurdián, known as Pinita; She is an older adult who suffers from cancer and she wrote on her Facebook account that she does not want to die without first seeing her daughter and her granddaughter, also a political prisoner, Tamara Dávila, released.
The two women have already completed a year of being in captivity. According to their relatives, they are under inhuman conditions, in isolation, incommunicado, without access to medicine or medical care and with few hours of sunlight per day.
«From my special situation of a cancer that progresses every day, I protest and ask you to open your heart. I wouldn’t want to die without having them free. All this anguish aggravates my situation. It is a constant nightmare… I use this space that, although it is small, is the only one that allows me to shout my anguish and my pain to the world,” Pinita wrote in her account. Facebook.
“Cold in this wet weather. To some they have passed the quilt that we brought them, but to others it has not been possible to deliver it. That is another form of torture. Sleeping on a stone bed on a mattress that has been reduced over time and that causes them a lot of back pain. Hungry. With flooding in some cells », he highlighted.
His daughter Ana Margarita Vijil and his granddaughter Tamara Dávila, both are political prisoners of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. The two opposition women faced trials for “undermining national integrity” under the alleged violation of Law 1055, Sovereignty Law. Vijil was sentenced to 12 years in prison and Dávila to 13 years in prison.