The dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo keeps 36 political prisoners over the age of 60 under house arrest or in prison, according to the November update of the Mechanism for the Recognition of Political Prisoners: six are women and 30 are men.
The Be Human campaign warned that the confinement of older adults is a “latent threat to their lives.” Organisms and relatives of the incarcerated have denounced that political prisoners are committed to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.
Situation that aggravates the state of some older adults who suffer from chronic diseases and are already presenting sleep apnea, fungal infections due to cell humidity, dental, circulation, cardiac, and blood pressure problems, among others.
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The relatives of political prisoner Suyen Barahona reiterate the demand that the activist be allowed to have communication with her five-year-old son, whom she has not seen since June 13, 2021 on orders from the Nicaraguan regime.
They have suffered from forced separation since she was arbitrarily detained and with luxury of violence in front of the minor.
The complaint from his relatives as part of the “Christmas without political prisoners” campaign states that “there are painful things for a five-year-old boy, such as growing up unfairly away from his mother, Suyen. It is torture, 540 days without communication, for which they ask that the boys and girls be allowed to communicate with their fathers and mothers who are political prisoners.”
The relatives of the president of the Unión Democrática Renovadora (Unamos) are promoting a campaign called #UnaLlamadaParaSuyen with the aim of making the situation visible and putting pressure on the national authorities.
The peasant leaders Medardo Mairena, Freddy Navas and Pedro Mena together with the student leaders Lesther Alemán and Max Jerez celebrated 17 months of being captive this Monday in the cells of El Chipote, in Managua, a research center where they are subjected to cruel treatment, inhumane and degrading, according to complaints from their relatives and national and international human rights organizations.
All political prisoners present weight loss, are aged and have serious health problems that are not attended to.
The relatives and the Peasant Movement denounced that Mena, Navas and Mairena continue to be subjected to constant interrogations, poor diet and psychological abuse.
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In a video that has gone viral, citizens identified as Heysell Linet Y Julmer Martinez Hernandez, Brothers from the Santa Rosa community, Jalapa municipality, Nueva Segovia department, beg their parents to get the money to pay their ransom after being kidnapped by a cartel in Mexico.
In the same images, the brothers can be seen sitting and crying, while guns are pointed at them. According to information from digital media and publications on social networks, both young people were heading to the United States in search of better life opportunities and were victims of crime that prevails in some border cities.
Recently, the Texas Nicaraguan Community (TNC) migrant aid organization warned that at least 250 Nicaraguans are missing.
At the time of writing this note, no updated information was known about the situation of the Martínez Hernández brothers.
After the recent wave of migration to the United States, especially citizens from Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, the Humanitarian Association for Human Rights (ADDDHH), based in Costa Rica, warned about the “dangerousness” of migrating, especially in transit for Mexico.
To avoid being victims of extortion, kidnapping or murder, the Association has provided several recommendations so that migrants can prevent unfortunate situations, including notifying relatives every period of time “between one and two hours,” avoiding talking to strangers, Do not give them information, do not seek help from individuals; Have your location active on your cell phone.
They also recommend looking for humanitarian organizations that can provide support to the situation that migrants are going through, and not using “polleros” or people who offer to travel in secret.
Another recommendation is that migrants transiting through Mexico go to a health center, “because many arrive dehydrated or with health problems.”
The Nicaraguan regime and the sanctioned Russian Today (RT in Spanish) news channel signed this Monday, December 5, a memorandum of “understanding” with the objective of “establishing strategic cooperation” between the media of both allied countries.
“In July 2022, we developed the first professional meeting in our country and we have also been advancing in the programming of different RT content on the television channels of the Sandinista media, media of the Citizen Power of Nicaragua,” said Daniel Edmundo Ortega. Murillo, Media Coordinator of the Communication and Citizenship Council and son of the dictatorial couple.
José Ulloa, a media analyst for the Voces del Sur organization, considered that the arrival of the propagandists of the Russian regime could be to “fine-tune” some strategies to “violate citizen rights” and “control the citizenry” or “fine-tune the pencil to repress” through information technology. “I don’t see good things (for said visit),” he told Article 66.
