Managua, 28 Feb. At least 37 opponents and detractors of the government of Nicaragua led by the Sandinista Daniel Ortega are in the prisons of this country, denounced this Tuesday the Mechanism for the recognition of political prisoners.
“There are still political prisoners in prison: 1 woman and 36 men (including 10 political prisoners captured before 2018, when the socio-political crisis that Nicaragua is going through broke out), the Mechanism said in a report, whose data is approved by the American Inter-Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
According to this Mechanism, on February 9, the Nicaraguan authorities released “222 political prisoners, who were exiled to the United States” and “stripped of their nationality by a sentence of illegal deportation and a reform of the Political Constitution which does not has no legal basis. “
After this massive release, 34 people remained in prison, to which are added three, he added.
“One of them captured in February 2022 and two captured in February 2023,” said the Mechanism, which explained that the family of the woman arrested in February last year did not allow her to be included in the case. group of “political prisoners”.
Among the 37 opponents still in prison, three are aged 60 or over and 9 have been released from prison and were subsequently rearrested.
The Mechanism noted that it has recognized 1,310 people as “political prisoners” from October 2028 to date, 72 of whom have been captured more than once for political reasons.
Nicaragua has been going through a political and social crisis since April 2018, which worsened after the controversial general elections of November 7, 2021, in which Ortega was re-elected for a fifth term, the fourth in a row and the second with his wife. . , Rosario Murillo. , as vice-president, with her main suitors in prison or in exile.
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