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In Nicaragua, a group of organizations, representing relatives of opponents arrested during the anti-government protests that broke out in April 2018, launched the campaign "No freedom, no Christmas" on Tuesday.
The announcement, made during a press conference broadcast through social networks, was followed by a statement from the Blue and White National Unit (UNAB), which called for citizen mobilization activities.
The group does not specify days or places, arguing security reasons for the participants.
«During this joint campaign we will carry out different mobilizing actions, taking into account all the security measures due to the repression and the police siege that has increased in recent months, trying to prevent the organization and advance of the opposition, but they will not bend our fighting spirit or our convictions ", expresses the UNAB in the text.
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Also in its Twitter account, the UNAB recalled that, for the third consecutive year, “more than 110 prisoners and political prisoners remain kidnapped and paying unjust sentences in the different prison systems of the country.
We demand their release!
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For its part, the Nicaraguan Digital Activism organization (ADNIC) published this Tuesday through its Twitter account the photograph and a brief profile of a detained opponent and demanded his freedom.
«I am Walter Montenegro from Jinotega, today I am serving 2 years and 1 month in prison, sentenced to 5 years for the alleged crime of attempted murder.
Continue demanding the freedom of all and all PP We are innocent! ", Reads the tweet.
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According to lawyer Pablo Cuevas from the independent Permanent Commission on Human Rights, CPDH, this body documented the case of that opponent.
He assures that Walter Montenegro is a member of the Peasant Movement, joined the protests against the government in 2018 at the roadblocks in Matagalpa and is still in prison, after being convicted of the crime of attempted murder and illegal possession and possession of weapons, crimes that according to his private attorney he did not commit.
In another message posted on its social networks, ADNIC denounces, without mentioning names, that "Some political prisoners are in poor health and emotional problems" and comments that, according to the detainees, "the prison system authorities have reduced family visits ”.
CNN tried to obtain a reaction to these complaints from the Ministry of the Interior, through the Communication and Citizenship Council, but we are still waiting for a response.
The Nicaraguan government does not recognize the existence of political prisoners and the authorities of the Ministry of the Interior only speak of common prisoners.
The Minister of the Interior, Amelia Coronel Kinloch, stated in an official act that, from October 20, 2019 to September of this year, 10,304 family coexistence benefits have been granted to prisoners, 66 of them were transferred to their countries of origin .
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