For more than three years, the released political prisoner Juan Bautista Guevara Carballo has suffered a permanent police siege in his home in the Buenos Aires neighborhood, in the municipality of Ticuantepe.
The presence of the agents of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo prevents him from leaving and having a quiet life with his family.
Guevara is a math and physics teacher, but he has not been able to find a job after his release on February 28, 2019. This weekend a police patrol remained stationed at the entrance of his house.
«The siege has not stopped since I left the dungeons until today, this has me in a civic death, that I cannot work, I cannot go out and there are many needs that one has at home: medicine, food for the children, but with God’s help here we go,” said Juan Bautista Guevara in an audio broadcast to the media.
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The teacher affirms that he is a victim of harassment by the system that, through the sanctioned Police, has subjected the country to the Ortega and Murillo regime, which “has believed itself to be the owner of Nicaragua.” Juan Bautista Guevara considers that these actions of the Ortega dictatorship are a form of slavery for the entire nation, but that “with God’s help we will soon be free.”
The released political prisoner assured that he continues to pray for all the political prisoners, the bishops and priests of the Catholic Church who are detained and for the memory of the victims of the repression of the Nicaraguan regime who were assassinated. “We always remain strong, firm and in resistance,” he said.
In June of this year, the Union of Nicaraguan Political Prisoners and Prisoners (UPPN) and the International Human Rights Network (RIDH) presented a report directed and prepared for the United Nations Committee Against Torture (CAT) where they point out that political prisoners are subjected to a “civil death” by the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo after regaining their freedom.
The UPPN and RIDH document is based on the interview, monitoring and collection of information from 30 former political prisoners who suffered arbitrary detention, torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and the consequences of the confinement to which they were subjected by the Nicaraguan dictatorship since 2018. .
“The results of the report revealed several direct consequences of the imprisonment and torture suffered, including physical and psychological ailments that have not been adequately treated due to the constant state of persecution and violence towards political prisoners; which leads to a generalized “civil death” where all the victims indicate that they no longer feel like full citizens for not being able to exercise their rights”, reads the press release released by UPPN.
