Opponents of prisoners in Nicaragua are in absolute defenselessness, their families say

Nicaragua d.HUMANS

Managua, Nov. (EFE).- The 40 Nicaraguan opposition leaders arrested in the context of the general elections of November 7 accused of "betrayal of the homeland", are "in absolute helplessness", their relatives denounced this Friday.

“Absolute helplessness.They have not yet been allowed to meet with their technical defenses and interrogations continue.

“All requests presented by their lawyers are denied or not resolved.The due process of law and its suspended processes, de facto, indefinite, ”.

The relatives updated the information of the so -called “political prisoners” - former Sandinistas dissident, activists, peasants, entrepreneurs, students and independent professionals - after the most recent visit, allowed last Tuesday and Wednesdays past although with restrictions such as delivering “parcel” (food and clothing), coats, as well as talk alone, among others.

They stressed that their relatives suffer "physical deterioration", they do not have "specialized" medical care, they have the "lights on 24 hours", they have no access to clothing to protect themselves from the cold, and "they prevent them from communicating with each other".

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They argued that the leader of the Unaamos party, former Sandinista Renewal Movement (MRS), Tamara Dávila, "continues in a completely sealed cell", a situation that the former guerrilla Dora María Téllez, Ana Margarita Vijil and Suyén Barahona, all Sandinistas dissidents now, all Sandinistas dissidents now also live.

They also denounced harassment by prison jailers, known as "El Chipote" and administered by the National Police.

The visitors suffered "exaggerated presence of police officers, physical reviews that included retirement of clothing and underwear, dispossession of personal use objects," they denounced.

The relatives of the 40 convicts considered that "because of the conditions in which they are kept, they are causing irreversible damage to both physical and psychological".

Among their demands, they requested the urgency of their "immediate and without restrictions", both for 40 and "for the more than 150 people political prey".

Oppositors, entrepreneurs and independent professionals have been accused of crimes considered betrayal of the country, and money laundering.Your relatives and defense lawyers insist on their innocence.

Among the prisoners are seven who had declared their interest in competing with President Daniel Ortega in the general elections of last 7, in which the ruler was re -elected and those that were qualified as “illegitimate” by the opposition, the organization of theAmerican States, the European Union, and part of the international community.