At least two political prisoners are on a hunger strike in the cells of the Judicial Assistance Directorate (DAJ), known as “El Chipote” so that the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo allows them to see and communicate with their minor sons and daughters. who have not seen each other for more than a year.
The hostages on indefinite fast are sportswriter and journalist Miguel Mendoza and lawyer and member of the Political Council of the Blue and White National Unity (UNAB), Róger Reyes. Faced with this situation of the hostages of conscience, the Be Human campaign warned that they are in “danger of death” due to the hunger strike they are undergoing.
Another area of conscience who demands to be allowed to have a call with her five-year-old son is Suyen Barahona, president of the Renovating Democratic Union (Unamos) who has been separated from her little one since she was arrested by the Ortega Murillo regime Police in June last year on the eve of presidential elections that were ignored by the international community. Barahona’s husband said that for a child under five, growing up far from her mother “is torture” for both the child and the parent.
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Miguel Mendoza has lost more than 30 pounds of weight in prison and when he was presented in the Managua courts he looked thin and his relatives denounced that he suffers from various illnesses that are not treated by a doctor. The journalist has not seen his daughter for 460 days, the dictatorship does not allow him to receive any kind of written or video messages from Alejandra, eight years old.
The girl has written messages that are published on the chronicler’s social accounts. As a result of the forced separation between the journalist and her daughter, for more than 15 months, the girl has developed anxiety by not having her father present and she is “desperate” to see him.
Political prisoner Róger Reyes began a hunger strike six days ago to be allowed to see his three- and five-year-old daughters, reported his wife Fernanda Guevara. Roger Reyes’ wife regretted that his relatives have to resort to such “drastic and dangerous” strategies to guarantee their basic rights such as seeing and communicating with their sons and daughters.
«After the last visit on August 28, Róger (Reyes) told me how desperate he felt for not being able to see or hear his daughters, three and five-year-old girls. This separation of father and daughters is cruel, it violates the rights of children, the solitary confinement to which my daughters are being subjected and her father is considered torture,” said Reyes’ wife.
The regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo keeps more than 205 political prisoners in captivity in different prisons in the country, according to the Mechanisms for the Recognition of Political Prisoners in your August report. In that confinement they are subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment that has severely affected their health and physical condition, their relatives and human rights organizations denounced on separate occasions.
