More than twenty women remain as political prisoners in the prisons of the dictatorships of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. Activists, feminists, human rights defenders, lawyers, wives and mothers are subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. Many of them have not been able to see their sons and daughters because the regime has prevented them since they were imprisoned.
On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, various political and feminist organizations have demanded the release of the conscience hostages of the dictatorship. In their social networks they have demanded that they be released because they are innocent. This day is commemorated in memory of the murder of three Mirabal sisters, on November 25, 1960, by order of the ruler and dictator Rafael Trujillo, in the Dominican Republic.
Dora María Téllez, Violeta Granera, Samantha Jirón, Suyen Barahona, Tamara Dávila, Ana Margarita Vijil, María Esperanza Sánchez, María Fernanda Flores, Cristiana Chamorro, Evelyn Pinto, Julia Hernández, María Oviedo, Nidia Barbosa, Karla Escobar, Karla Vega, Mildred Rayo, Cinthia Padilla, Ana Carolina Álvarez, Jeanine Horvilleur and others that her family has asked not to reveal their names.
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After 2018, following the largest peaceful protests in Nicaraguan history, the Ortega regime increased the persecution of the country’s dissident voices, including women. Organizations have denounced that the regime keeps them under inhumane conditions to break their spirit and break their dignity.
«In Nicaragua at least 21 women are kidnapped for political reasons, isolated, tortured and threatened with sexual violence. We demand respect for the rights of all women. Enough of the violence!” The opposition Blue and White National Unit (Unab) wrote on its social networks.
Most of these women political prisoners were accused using three laws that the Ortega regime created in 2020 with charges such as treason, undermining national integrity, and cybercrime.
The women political prisoners suffer extreme hunger, so that some have lost up to 50 pounds in weight and are only allowed to see the sun for 10 minutes a week. Some have been in permanent isolation, unable to speak to anyone for more than a year.
They are not allowed to communicate with their children or even see their drawings. In addition, they are constantly interrogated, poorly fed, denied medical attention for chronic illnesses, kept in isolation, and subjected to sensory disturbances.
The bell Nicas Free Nowfrom the organization Raza e Igualdad, has published photographs of the political prisoners with the history of each one of them and has demanded their release for several months, but the regime has turned a deaf ear to the calls of the international community for their freedom .
