Relatives in exile of political prisoners ask the Ortega regime to allow their children to see their parents by video call, as established by law. Imprisoned opponents and their relatives have carried out actions and campaigns in which they demand that they be allow minors to communicate regularly every 15 days.
“The relatives of the political prisoners in Nicaragua who have sons and daughters left the country, we demand that calls be granted via Zoom or another platform, in accordance with what is ordered by the regulations of LAW 473,” said Berta Valle, wife of the imprisoned opponent Félix Maradiaga who is being held in the Directorate of Judicial Assistance in Managua.
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The relatives of those imprisoned who are inside the country and human rights organizations have started a virtual campaign so that they can receive visits from their children. The initiative takes as an example the case of the political prisoner and leader of the Blue and White National Unity (Unab), Tamara Dávila, who lives a forced separation with her six-year-old daughter, an action ordered by the dictatorship.
Dávila spent more than 14 months without having any kind of contact with her little girl since she was arrested in her home on June 12, 2021. She was charged and sentenced to eight years in prison for the alleged crime of “conspiracy to undermine the national integrity” and “treason against the fatherland”.
Political prisoners Miguel Mora, Miguel Mendoza, Suyen Barahona, Félix Maradiaga, Juan Sebastián Chamorro and Róger Reyes also experience this same situation. All of them have been denied the right to communicate by any means with their offspring.
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“All prisoners and political prisoners have the right to see their relatives. This regime has systematically violated that right that is established in Nicaraguan legislation and this is especially serious in the case of children and disabled people. The penalties that are unfair should not be extended to the family, boys and girls cannot be punished by punishing the father or the mother”, said the opposition Ana Quirós, member of the Political Council of the Unab.
The only mechanism that has been effective so that the political prisoners Tamara Dávila and Miguel Mora could see their children last Saturday, August 20, was a hunger strike. The regime relented and allowed both prisoners of conscience to meet them after 15 months under forced separation.
