Nicaragua: Daniel Ortega’s regime shows third group of opposition prisoners

Daniel Ortega’s regime Nicaragua fielded this Thursday a third group of opponents and critics of the administration who remain imprisoned for more than a year and whom humanitarian organizations consider political prisoners.

For the third day in a row, the Nicaraguan authorities have shown a group of convicts through photos and videos published in the official media and with a Sandinista profile, assuring that they were taken during a visit to the Managua Judicial Complex.

On the occasion, opposition leader Violeta Granera, human rights activist Maria Oviedo, peasant leaders Freddy Navas and Pedro Mena, sports journalist Miguel Mendoza, opposition leader Alex Hernandez and activist Yader Parajon were represented.

Filed after complaints

This exhibition of imprisoned opponents began last Tuesday after relatives of the prisoners said they were suffering from “extreme malnutrition and weight loss” as the regime allegedly cut food rations at El Chipote prison in recent months. humanitarian organizations as a torture center for the National Police.

Like the 20s “political prisoners” presented on Tuesday and Wednesday, those this Thursday showed faces similar to those described by their relatives: pale faces and noticeably thin bodies.

On Tuesday, images were released of Juan Sebastián Chamorro, Medardo Mairena and Miguel Mora, among others, who sought to become presidential candidates in last November’s election in which Ortega was re-elected amid doubts about the legitimacy of the process.

Images of opposition presidential candidate Felix Maradiaga were shown on Wednesday, along with former dissident Sandinista guerrilla Dora Maria Telles and the paper’s general manager. pressJuan Lorenzo Holmann Chamorro and others.

The exposed prisoners belong to a group of opposition leaders, students, peasants, businessmen, journalists and independents, including seven dissidents who ran for president in last November’s general election. Office of Judicial Assistance of the National Police.

The opponents, who were arrested between May and November 2021, were sentenced to between 7 and 13 years in prison for crimes considered “high treason” or money laundering.

the president Ortega he branded imprisoned opponents as “traitors to the country”, “outlaws”, and “imperialist Yankee sons of bitches”.

(As reported by EFE)

The legislator said that economic interests are behind the project, approved at the insistence of the plenary session of the parliament. On the other hand, MP Alex Paredes of the ruling Masters Bloc justified his group’s support for the project’s persistence despite the government’s compliance with the law.