Political prisoner Róger Reyes began a hunger strike four days ago to be allowed to see his three- and five-year-old daughters, reported his wife Fernanda Guevara.
Reyes is detained in the cells of the Judicial Assistance Directorate (DAJ), known as “El Nuevo Chipote”, a place where they receive cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, according to complaints from their relatives and human rights organizations.
The lawyer, like a dozen political prisoners, has not been able to see his sons and daughters for more than a year after being detained by the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo on the eve of the November 2021 presidential elections. For 399 days he has not seen his two young daughters.
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«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 and their father are being subjected is considered torture,” said Roger Reyes’ wife.
«Roger (Reyes) told me that if he was not granted a visit with his daughters before September 20, he would start a hunger strike. As his family member, I am extremely concerned about his physical and emotional health status as he is not eating food».
Roger Reyes’ wife lamented that her 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.
He assured that boys and girls have the right to see their parents, as stated in the Family Code. The law establishes that fathers, mothers, sons and daughters must maintain communication and that this right is not extinguished because the parents are in prison.
Political prisoners Miguel Mora, Tamara Dávila, Suyen Barahona, Félix Maradiaga, Juan Sebastián Chamorro and Miguel Mora also experience this same situation of forced separation with their sons and daughters.
