The Christmas and New Year festivities will not be full of colors and joy for the families of more than 40 Nicaraguans who are unjustly deprived of their freedom for political reasons in the prisons of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
The organization Juventud Renovadora, of the Democratic Renewal Union (Unamos) expressed, through a message on social networks, the “deep pain” that overwhelms the opposition and the families of political prisoners who spend Christmas Eve and soon the Christmas festivities. end of the year in the cold prisons of the Sandinista regime.
«This Christmas, we remember with deep pain the political prisoners, who are separated from their families. May the grief we feel today be the seed of change,” says Unamos in a message published on the social network X.
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According to the latest update of the Mechanism for the Recognition of Political Prisoners of Nicaraguathe Ortega-Murillo tyranny keeps 45 Nicaraguans imprisoned for reasons of conscience.
Among the political prisoners are retired Army Major Eddie González, who faced gunfire with the Ortega police when they arrived at his house to arrest him.
Also the Miskito indigenous leader and representative for the Caribbean Coast, Brooklyn Rivera, and the indigenous leader Steadman Fagot. Furthermore, Leonel Antonio Poveda, Julio Antonio Quintana Carvajal, Brian Luis Arturo Rizo Madness, Dionisio Robins Zacarías Walder, Antonio Ruiz Rivera, Carmen María Sáenz, among others, are unjustly imprisoned.
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Dictators Ortega and Murillo have been indolent in the face of the constant call from human rights organizations and the international community to release all prisoners of conscience.
On the contrary, the regime has granted the so-called “presidential pardon” to a total of 52,621 common prisoners since 2014. Many of those released have been convicted of serious crimes and do not serve even half of their sentences. Added to this is the phenomenon that at least 8% of them return to prison for crimes more serious than the previous one.
