Exiled political prisoners continue the campaign to demand the release of the more than 60 political prisoners in Nicaragua, including religious, activists, territorial leaders and journalists.
One of those who joined the initiative was Tamara Dávila, a former conscience of the Daniel Ortega regime. “In unity for the freedom of all political prisoners, in unity for the freedom of Olesia Muñoz, of Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, of Monsignor Leonardo, of Jason Salazar, in unity for the freedom of our beloved Nicaragua,” Dávila declared through a video posted on his social networks.
Members of Nicaraguan groups and leaders are calling on the international community to support this campaign, in which they stress that citizens are imprisoned for thinking differently and that the judicial processes to which they have been subjected are spurious.
“We call on the people of Nicaragua and the international community to demand the freedom of the more than 60 political prisoners who suffer inhuman, unfair and degrading treatment in the prisons of the Ortega and Murillo dictatorship. They are illegally imprisoned. They have not committed any crime. They have only demanded justice, democracy and freedom. They have only opined and thought differently, “Dávila stressed.
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Violeta Granera, also a politician and one of the oldest people that Ortega and Murillo kept in prison, added that the current detainees in this context “are people who have not committed any crime and who are there only for political reasons, (…) Let’s do our best to achieve the immediate release of these more than 60 people who are unjustly detained in Nicaragua.”
Other initiatives
The Ortega-Murillo regime maintains in the country’s detention centers journalists and religious who were arrested for carrying out their work. From exile, Nicaraguan communicators and the Inter-American Press Association are promoting a permanent campaign for the release of Víctor Ticay, a former correspondent for Channel 10, who has been imprisoned since April 2023 for broadcasting the ban on processions in Nicaragua imposed by the dictatorship.
The detention of Bishop Rolando Álvarez for more than 300 days, a prisoner of conscience, also motivated different organizations to join the world crusade of prayer for his release. Other opponents carry out a virtual campaign in which they demand the release of the hierarch, one of the most beloved by the Nicaraguan Catholic community.
At the end of June, relatives of the current political prisoners filed a complaint about the physical and psychological deterioration of the prisoners of conscience, highlighting that they continue to be victims of torture in the different prisons.
