Journalist Miguel Moraconsidered as a “political prisoner“of the Government of Daniel Ortega, according to the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh), made a drastic decision so that he could see his son, with whom he has not met since he was arrested in June 2021: has been on a hunger strike for more than a month which he promises to support until the request is fulfilled.
“Miguel’s desperation has grown in such a way that he has decided to carry out a hunger strike to the last consequences, to continue demanding and demanding his right to meet his son Miguelito, who because of that forced estrangement, is having repercussions on your mental and emotional health”, reported the Cenidh.
Miguel’s son is a 22-year-old who has a motor disability and that he hasn’t seen his father for more than a year. More specifically, the journalist has been in prison for 13 months and is serving a 13 year sentence for the crime of “undermining national integrity”.
Owner of the television channel 100% Noticias, confiscated by the Government in December 2021, was captured in June 2021, after he announced his interest in running for president in the elections last November, in which Ortega was re-elected without much competition, given that his opponents were behind bars or in exile.
“The Ortega Murillo regime is committing in this case a double torture: he executes it against Miguel Mora inside Chipote (a prison of the National Police) and the one that is causing irreversible damage to Miguelito, a disabled child,” Cenidh remarked.
In addition, from that body they warned that “Miguel Mora’s life is in danger” and demanded that “the Ortega Murillo regime has to respond to its completely legitimate demand.”
Far from being an isolated case, it is part of the sociopolitical crisis that Nicaragua has been experiencing since 2018, when a series of attacks by government forces reduced massive anti-government protests.
Daniel Ortega was reelected as president of Nicaragua in 2021, with his adversary adversaries behind bars or in exile. Photo REUTERS.
According to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), these clashes between protesters and the Police left at least 355 dead, hundreds of thousands of exiles and more than 190 “political prisoners” who have not been released.
They denounce the Government of Nicaragua for the arrest of an indigenous Guatemalan journalist
The opposition National Blue and White Unit denounced this Monday that the indigenous journalist from Guatemala Irma Alicia Velasquez was arrested in Nicaragua.
“We denounce the detention and expulsion of Guatemalan journalist and anthropologist Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj upon her arrival in Nicaragua. The regime continues its repressive and authoritarian escalation. It is time for the international community to act more firmly in the face of these abuses,” they communicated on their social networks.
For its part, the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (Acnudh) said it had information “on the arrest by Nicaraguan authorities of the Guatemalan columnist and anthropologist Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj, at the Managua international airport. ”.
According to OHCHR, “Velásquez was on his way to an academic event. At the time of the events, several belongings were allegedly stolen and the reasons for the arrest were not reported to him.”
With information from EFE.
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