Daniel Ortega’s regime changed the precautionary measure from preventive detention to house arrest for prisoners of conscience Edgard Parrales Castillo, 79, and Mauricio Díaz Dávila, 71, due to their health condition. Both former diplomats join the political prisoners Arturo Cruz, Jose Pallais and Francisco Aguirre Sacasawho last Friday were also sent to their homes under police custody, but without knowing what their medical situation is.
Diaz Davila He was sentenced this Thursday to nine years in prison for the alleged crime of “conspiring to undermine national integrity”; however, in the sentencing document read at 3:00 pm, Judge Luden Quiroz García, of the Ninth District Criminal Trial Court, ratified the preventive detention, despite the fact that the political prisoner’s defense had submitted the request for a change of precautionary measure on four occasions, met CONFIDENTIAL.
Hours later, the Public Ministry, in a statement released At midnight this Friday, he announced the change in the prison regime, citing humanitarian reasons for the health of political prisoners, without giving further details.
The also national director of the Citizens for Freedom (CxL) party was violently arrested on August 9, 2021by a group of National Police officers who intercepted him, beat his son and the lawyer who accompanied him, after testifying before the Ortega Prosecutor’s Office.
The confinement of more than 190 days to which he has been subjected has deteriorated his physical and psychological health. His relatives have denounced that inside the cells of El Chipote he has fainted, has mental blackouts and spots on his skin as a result of the few hours of sunlight he is authorized.
Urgent specialized medical attention
Parrales Castillo, former Nicaraguan representative to the Organization of American States (OAS) of the Sandinista government in the 1980s, is accused by the regime’s justice system of “conspiring to undermine national integrity” and “spreading false news.” He was captured on Monday, November 22, by civilians and transferred to El Chipote, as part of Ortega’s latest wave of repression against political and civic leaders, who question his illegitimacy in power. He does not yet have a trial scheduled.
Since his capture, his family has expressed fear for his worsening health, since the former diplomat requires a specialized colonoscopy because he has chronic digestive problems. Ten years ago they removed his large intestine, he has diverticulitis and a hernia.
The specialized medical procedure was scheduled with his family doctor, before being arbitrarily imprisoned, for mid-December, which would make it possible to know whether or not he needs to operate on the hernia and the risks that this entails.
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