the opponent Karla Patricia Vega-Channelsoriginally from the municipality of El Rosario, in the department of Carazo, has been detained for five days at the Jinotepe police station, after on Saturday, November 5, officers forcibly removed her from her home without a court order.
A source close to Vega Canales told Article 66 that to date her relatives have not been able to see her and that the only thing they have been informed is that she is under investigation.
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It was learned that the relatives of the 43-year-old citizen have brought her food and some pieces of clothing, but as for the visit, the police officers inform them that “there is no authorization.”
One of the concerns of a person close to the opponent is that Karla Vega suffers from hypertension and has a bascular thrombosis in her right leg, for which it is urgent that she receive her medicines.
I was being watched by the policea
On the other hand, an informant revealed that before Vega was arbitrarily detained, police agents came to “surround” his home, took photographs and then left.
“A commissioner was visiting Karla —Vega— and her family,” said the source, without specifying the reasons for the visit or how long the siege lasted.
The arrest against Vega occurred one day before the disputed municipal elections held on November 6, where the Ortega regime won the 153 mayorships in the country.
Although Karla Vega —who is a housewife— does not belong to any opposition group, sources point out that she did participate in the 2018 social protests against the Nicaraguan government.
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Prior to and during the municipal elections, the Police made other arrests of opponents, including Randall Vivasoriginally from the municipality of Nindirí in Masaya, who is a relative of political prisoner Nidia Barbosa and nephew of Ortega mayor of Nindirí, Clarissa Vivas Castellónhowever it was known that on the seventh of this month he was released.
Vega joins the list of opponents deprived of their liberty for not agreeing with Ortega’s authoritarian drift.
