The number of Nicaraguan opponents arrested, mostly in the context of the 2018 crisis, increased to 181 until last March, the Nicaraguan Mechanism for the Recognition of Political Prisoners reported Tuesday, whose data are endorsed by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
The report reported two more political prisoners than in their previous work, issued on March 14. These are people who were captured between December and January and so far it was possible to confirm that they are cases related to the crisis, the Mechanism explained in a statement.
Of the 181 political prisoners, including 14 women, 171 were arrested following the social outbreak against the regime of Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega in 2018, and ten have been kept under lockdown since before that year, the report said.
“The number of persons released and recaptured stands at 44, of whom six are currently being detained for the third time for political reasons,” the report noted.
He also indicated that “31 people remain in separate detention cells, either in isolation, punishment cell, or maximum security”.
“A group of 30 prisoners in the prison known as El Chipote”, which has been denounced by humanitarian agencies as the alleged “torture center” of the National Police, are kept under “solitary confinement”, without guaranteeing “non-compliance with the 'Nelson Mandela' rules for the treatment of detainees ”, he added.
In March 2021, the Mechanism reported 125 political prisoners in Nicaragua, a number that dropped to 122 in May, but since then the number of arrests has increased.
In the report, the Mechanism highlighted that “ill-treatment and torture of political prisoners and their families” continue.
In addition, they are restricted from food, protective materials against COVID-19, access to health, lack of care, as well as “threats and harassment” to visiting families.
As in previous editions, the Mechanism warned that the list is preliminary, since there are people who prefer that the names of their imprisoned relatives not be included, for fear of reprisals.
Political prisoners, described as such by humanitarian agencies, are opponents, critics of Ortega or independent professionals, usually accused of terrorism, economic crimes or treason.
(With information from EFE)
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