A group of political prisoners from the Waswalí Regional Penitentiary System, Matagalpa, began an “indefinite” hunger strike this Monday, April 25, in rejection of the “cruel and inhuman” treatment of those who are victims by the authorities of that prison. prison center.
“We have decided to go on a hunger strike due to the cruel and inhuman treatment of which we are victims by the higher authorities,” reported political prisoner Manuel Urbina Lara through an audio that he sent to a released political prisoner. The exact number of participants in the hunger strike is unknown, but in that prison there are 17 prisoners of conscience, according to a preliminary list that was released on February 28 by the Mechanism for the Recognition of Political Prisoners.
Urbina Lara dHe stated that all the prisoners of conscience of the Waswalí Prison have limited access to drinking water, their food is reduced, and they are denied recreation and hours of sun patio.
“Access to drinking water here is limited, there are days when they give us half a gallon of water to survive, and they have even stolen our intellectual property, our themes, our songs, they reduce our diet, they have denied us recreation, we they have denied the sun, they have denied us everything,” he said.
CONFIDENTIAL spoke with the released political prisoner who received Lara’s audio and he stated that other prisoners of conscience who are on a hunger strike are: Alcides Zeledón, Jordani García and brothers Oliver and Dorling Montenegro.
In addition, he mentioned that from outside they are “monitoring” the hunger strike carried out by prisoners of conscience, since they may suffer reprisals for denouncing the human rights violations of which they are being victims.
“We will continue denouncing the regime’s abuse”
Lawyer Manuel Urbina Lara, critical of the Daniel Ortega regime, warned that the more they are repressed more they will strengthen their “opposition” within the prison and will continue to speak out and denounce “all the humiliations that this regime commits.”
Urbina Lara was sentenced to four years in prison for the crime of reckless homicide, after getting involved in a traffic accident in which a person died, after the Prosecutor’s Office accused him and prevented him and the family of the accident victim from reaching a mediation.
The family of the prisoner of conscience has denounced that their relative has been subjected to subhuman conditions and confined in punishment cells; bolted and very small, in which he does not even have access to talk with other prisoners in the pavilion.
Daniel Ortega’s regime keeps more than 180 people imprisoned for political reasons in the country’s different prisons. National and international organizations have demanded the urgent release of each of the prisoners of conscience, given the serious violations of which they are victims.
