The relatives of political prisoner Irving Larios managed to visit him for the sixth time at the Evaristo Vásquez Judicial Complex, better known as “El Nuevo Chipote.” After the meeting and verifying the continuity of human rights violations, the relatives of the economist demanded that the Daniel Ortega administration change the precautionary measure from preventive detention to house arrest for the opponent, due to the different effects he suffers in your health.
In addition, they report that the prisoner of conscience could have been infected with COVID-19. Since March 8, the day the sentence against him was read, Larios showed symptoms associated with the virus, but the prison authorities never reported this situation. It was not until Saturday, March 19, during the hearing that they found out about the state of health of the economist and sociologist.
The relatives of Larios, in communication with the team of Article 66, detailed that «the lawyer notified us, that she was present at the reading, that she saw Irving Larios badly, affected; and what they (the police) said was that he had pharyngitis, but it turns out that it was not pharyngitis but that he was COVID-19. He continued to present all the symptoms of COVID-19, it happened practically since March 8 that it started like this, then he was in the cells without anyone caring for him with all the symptoms of a sore throat, fever and that it was difficult for him to breathe. Up to six days later they attended him.
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They indicated that the political prisoner did not eat food for two days due to pain in his throat and reached saturate 87 of oxygen in the blood, what they classify as “dangerous, because even below 90 they suggest that you have to be vigilant to see if hospitalization is required.”
Larios’s relatives are “concerned” about his health, he suffers from hypertension and uric acid. They fear that something similar will happen to the opponent, as happened with the late former guerrilla Hugo Torres. “All of us family members are hurt by this situation, but even more worried, because that tells us that just as it happened to Hugo (Torres), it could happen to one of our prisoners,” they said.
After fifty days in solitary confinement, Irving Larios was able to see his relatives, where they verified that the political prisoner continues to lose weight, from 165 pounds to 133. «Mentally he is fine, he is lucid, emotionally he is still strong and what he tells us and what we say; It is that they (prisoners of conscience) continue to ask for the release of all, of the more than 170 political prisoners, that we not get tired until they are released, that they are all innocent,” they said.
The economist and sociologist is accused of violating Law 1055, known as the “Sovereignty Law” and Law 1042, the Special Cybercrime Law, after a political trial that presented a series of procedural irregularities and illegalities, according to a complaint by defense attorneys for political prisoners. . The Tenth District Criminal Trial Judge, Nancy Aguirre Gudiel, sentenced him to 13 years in prison, plus disqualification from holding public office.
The hostage of the dictatorship currently remains in a common cell, which he shares with the peasant leader Pedro Mena, he met Article 66.
They request the corresponding authorities to “At least give him a house for jail.” They make this request due to the effects on his health, the precarious conditions in which the opponent finds himself and due to the lack or no information provided by the Police officers when Larios has become ill.
In addition, they denounce that the authorities continue to deny access to bring a blanket to Irving Larios. His relatives tirelessly call for the release of the political prisoner and of the more than 170 prisoners of conscience who remain captive in Nicaraguan prisons.
