Relatives of the political prisoner Olesia Munoz Pavon They were able to visit her for the first time in the Women’s Penitentiary System, known as La Esperanza, in Tipitapa, after being held captive for more than two months in the Police Station of District Three, in Managua.
After her arrest on April 6, during the religious festivities of Holy Week, the 51-year-old opposition member, originally from the municipality of Niquinohomo, Masaya, was in complete solitary confinement, but it was until this Monday, June 19, according to the exiled politician Ana Margarita Vijil, that her family was able to see her.
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Through his Twitter account, Vijil pointed out that after the transfer to the women’s prison, the conditions for Muñoz have improved. She «She arrived sick, thin and very deteriorated. In La Esperanza she has received medical attention, “said the former conscientious person.
He also stressed that the Catholic parishioner has also had access to parcels, sheets and medicines from her family, rights that, according to one of her relatives, had been denied to them at the District Three Police station.
«She is (…) sharing a cell with two other political prisoners. They support each other and keep company. -Olesia Muñoz- is firm, with her faith held high and always with encouragement, “said Vijil.
In District Three their rights were violated
For her part, a relative of the political prisoner told Article 66 that “thank God Olesia has not received physical abuse.” However, he stated that his rights were violated in District Three of the Police.
«In the police station it was very bad. The things that she took with her sacrifice were not sent to her. Olesia could see the officers who ate her things in front of her, but in Esperanza the attention has been very good, “reported the relative.
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Regarding the reasons for the transfer, on June 9, the source indicated that it was due to the fact that the day before the cell where Muñoz was being held was flooded and “the toilet overflowed.”
Despite being imprisoned again, a relative of Olesia affirmed that the opponent is firm in her faith. “My sister says that soon she is going to be released, that we don’t worry, that everything is going to be fine and that God has her there for a purpose.”
Both Olesia Muñoz and her family consider that the transfer to La Esperanza was “a miracle from God because, in addition to the fact that the cell was flooded, the day before, six political areas prayed two thousand Hail Marys, for which they consider that” it was a response that the Virgin gave them because they could no longer bear being in that place.
Olesia Muños faces an accusation for cybercrimes and treason. According to her relative, she has not yet been found guilty. This is the second time that the citizen is a political prisoner of the Ortega regime; the first was in 2018, where she was kidnapped for almost a year; She was convicted of terrorism, released on June 11, 2019, under the controversial Amnesty Law.