The Spanish political party Podemos spoke again on the release of political prisoners and reiterated its rejection of the “undermining of all public freedoms” carried out by the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo against the Nicaraguan people.
“The current situation of political prisoners in Nicaragua is certainly worrying, especially that of women, the elderly and people with chronic diseases, and the most vulnerable people,” Podemos denounced on its website.
He added that “many of them (reasons of conscience) show a strong physical and psychological deterioration due to the situation of mistreatment and isolation to which they are subjected, situations that have been denounced by their relatives and by human rights organizations.”
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In addition, he joined the popular clamor for the dictatorship to open the prisons and verify the situation of the hostages of conscience.
Relatives of political prisoners have denounced the serious deterioration in the state of health of their detained relatives: they are subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment; they have a poor diet and are not allowed reading material, among others.
The political organization affirmed that the human rights organizations themselves have established that these are arbitrary arrests and trials without due diligence, under the action of judicial powers controlled by the Daniel Ortega dictatorship.
“Faced with these serious violations of human rights in the country, we urge the Nicaraguan State to allow the UN Group of Experts access to the country, as an independent accountability mechanism established by the resolution of March 31, 2022 of the Human Rights Council”, he highlights.
Podemos also rejects the “massive, arbitrary and indiscriminate closures of civil society and human rights organizations that have been taking place in recent months.” In total, they have canceled the legal status of 1,174 NGOs, according to records from the Nicaragua Never Again Collective.
