Relatives of 20 political prisoners of the Jorge Navarro National Penitentiary System, known as “La Modelo”, reported that as of September 26 they will begin an indefinite hunger strike to demand their release and respect for their human rights from the regime of Daniel Ortega.
“My brother (Bryan Alemán) decided to join the hunger strike today to demand his freedom, he no longer wants to continue in the dungeons, he has been in there for a year now, it is his second recapture and he hopes the hunger strike will be of some use. indefinitely and trust in God they will come out soon,” said Hanzi Alemán, sister of the political prisoner.
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“The request of the political prisoners and us as family members is to demand that the regime release them because they are innocent, they are not criminals. As relatives we feel fear, since they can be beaten, transferred to maximum security and in the end they run a lot of risk being inside the prisons, because inside the prison they can take away their visits, prohibit the passage of food. But we demand their prompt freedom and we hope that the hunger strike will have a prompt response,” Hanzi Alemán told Article 66.
The political prisoners from “La Modelo” denounce that they are being searched, their food is thrown away and they have also been beaten and tortured inside the cells, violating their fundamental rights. The group of incarcerated denounces the prison director Venancio Alaniz and Luis Mercado, who is the head of searches for the “degrading” situations against them.
The number of political prisoners of the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo increased to 205 until August 2022, including religious leaders, a period in which the repressive pattern has persisted, according to updated data from the Mechanism for the Recognition of Political Prisoners. .
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“The use of arbitrary detention and the criminalization of human and civil rights continues to be a systematic strategy of repression carried out by the State. Month by month, the Mechanism recognizes between 1 and 5 people detained for reasons of political persecution and although some of them are released hours or days later under threat, others face judicial processes that lack guarantees and judicial protection, “says the agency. .
They have also demanded the international community, the governments of the region and the international human rights, political and economic organizations to exert “the necessary pressure through all the existing and approved mechanisms so as not to give any respite to the Ortega dictatorship that its objective is to establish its nefarious and violent ideology in Nicaragua,” said the Union of Nicaraguan Political Prisoners and Prisoners in a recent statement.
