The relatives of the political prisoners denounced that their relatives imprisoned in “El Nuevo Chipote” have suffered from “nervous breakdowns, hypertension, heart conditions, insomnia, loss of appetite, crying and despair”, due to the prolonged solitary confinement to which they were subjected. by the regime in the last three months.
The imprisoned union leaders suffered 84 days of absolute solitary confinement. It wasn’t until this past weekend that the families managed to get together for about two hours.
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During the visit, the relatives verified the “serious psychological, physical and emotional effects caused to political prisoners” by being isolated from their relatives for a long period.
In addition, they affirm that the family visits took place under a climate of tension and abuse of power, since most of the visitors were subjected to “exhaustive and demeaning searches, violating their physical integrity and privacy.”
The dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo decided to remove the name of Dennis Martínez from the facade of the National Baseball Stadium, the most important sports arena in Nicaragua, according to photographs released by national media and users of social networks.
The name of Dennis Martínez was not only removed from the exterior of the Stadium, but it was also removed from the social media accounts of the venue and from the propaganda of the matches.
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In this way, the regime would be trying to erase all traces of the greatest figure in Nicaraguan baseball in the Major Leagues, a member of the World Baseball Hall of Fame, who has spoken out against human rights violations.
Father Uriel Vallejos denounced that Monsignor Rolando Alvarez He is sick, without a private doctor to attend him and eats what the Ortega Murillo regime authorizes.
The priest Vallejos, who is in exile due to religious persecution, revealed on his Twitter account that the bishop is not with his family either, as the dictatorship assured by imposing an alleged house arrest on him.
He added that Monsignor Álvarez, like the other priests and seminarians of the Diocese of Matagalpa, who have been in prison for more than a hundred days, “cannot be well and what they suffer is inhumane.”
According to his sources, “one of the priests is losing his vision and (hearing), and the others are extremely thin and ill. Also, the diet is very bad.
For its part, the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh) denounced that Monsignor Rolando Álvarez “suffered a fall” of which no details are known. The defenders demanded that the regime immediately release him and demanded that the high hierarchy of the Catholic Church provide information about the religious leader.