The Ortega Police raided this morning two houses where relatives of the opposition Zayda Hernández live, located in the Shick neighborhood, in Managua. The activist is currently in exile in the United States.
According to the information disclosed by the young woman on her social networks, the uniformed officers broke into the properties of her maternal grandmother and her paternal grandparents. They entered breaking the padlocks.
Before leaving, the police officers told Hernández’s 70-year-old grandmother to warn her granddaughter not to get involved in political issues. They took her phone and later returned to her house to return the device.
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The Reliable Sources outlet added that the agents also went to the place looking for the released political prisoner Elsa Valle, who recently announced her exile in the United States.
Hernández expressed on Facebook that this day is “another chaotic 19th for me and my family. This morning the Sandinista police attacked my entire family. They broke padlocks to forcibly enter the homes of my 70-year-old maternal grandmother, my sister, and later to my paternal grandparents’ house -where they were also looking for my father-, police officers asked for “my head”. They confiscated cell phones and proceeded to call me from one of them.”
“According to the torturers, I am in Nicaragua and they were looking for me to transfer me to (the Directorate) Judicial Assistance. I hold the Sandinista dictatorship responsible for any physical and emotional damage suffered by my relatives,” denounced the opposition member.
Hernández was one of the first student representatives to meet with United States Congresswoman Ileana Ross-Lehtinen, one of the main promoters of the application of sanctions to the Ortega-Murillo regime and an activist in the demand for the release of political prisoners since 2018. .
On several occasions the young woman confronted the riot police, she was also arrested for this situation and a victim of torture. In May 2019, she denounced that she was kidnapped while she tried to attend a civic march in the center of Managua, after her release she showed signs of violence.
For her part, the opposition member Elsa Valle, whom the police agents were looking for inside the house, announced her search for asylum in the United States on November 22. Valle traveled irregularly through Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico with her little son Leandro, her mother, her sister and two of her friends.
The Nicaraguan regime has used this new modality in cases of persecution of opponents who are in exile, raiding the homes of their relatives and in other cases taking whoever they find into custody.
