For more than 600 days, the guerrilla commander Dora María has been confined to a cell in the men’s pavilion of the Directorate of Judicial Assistance (DAJ), known as “El Nuevo Chipote”, a place where she is subjected to torture, according to repeated complaints. their relatives and local and international human rights organizations.
The Autonomous Women’s Movement (MAM) and the Mesoamerican Initiative of Women Human Rights Defenders (IM-Defensoras) have separately demanded that the prison authorities transfer the political prisoner to a women’s wing.
The two organizations consider that keeping Téllez in a men’s ward is a violation of his human rights and contrary to the Mandela and Bangkok Rules.
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“We join the collective demand that the rights and integrity of Dora María Téllez be respected. We demand that #TransladenADoraMaría to the women’s pavilion, but above all, we demand her immediate release. #QueLasLiberen », she wrote on her Twitter account IM-Defensoras.
“Transfer Dora María, respect human rights, the conditions in which they are in are inhumane and subject to being in the men’s pavilion,” said the MAM for its part.
The political rea has been in prison since June 13, 2021, after police officers even monitored her home with drones, which they later raided. That day, she was arbitrarily detained after beating her, according to complaints from her relatives.
The also historian and key figure of Sandinismo, who contributed to the overthrow of the other Somoza dictatorship, is one of the elderly political prisoners to whom the Ortega-Murillos deny the benefit of house arrest; despite the fact that, from their homes, the political prisoners continue to be subjected to isolation and lack of adequate medical care, according to complaints.
The founder of the Sandinista Renewal Movement (MRS), current Democratic Renewal Union (Unamos), was sentenced to eight years in prison for the alleged crime of conspiracy to undermine national integrity.
During his confinement, Téllez received an Honoris Causa doctorate from the New Sorbonne University in Paris. He was also awarded the 2022 René Cassin Human Rights Award, awarded by the Department of Justice, Equality and Social Policies of the Basque Government, in Spain.
