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John Cerna: “They Hit Us with Our Hands and Feet tied”

The university student spent 1075 days imprisoned by the dictatorship, most of that time in a maximum-security cell in La Modelo prison.

My whole family supports me unconditionally and they know the dangers I’m exposed to. My family also includes all of my friends.

He was the target of viciousness by police and interrogators “for having questioned the commander” at the national dialogue in 2018

Sofia Montenegro and Azahalea Solis noted that they left Nicaragua when there was no other option. “We spent five years under house arrest.”

“If there’s one thing we came to understand in jail, speaking among ourselves, it’s the profound errors we’ve committed over 200 years.”

Yaritzha Mairena urges opposition forces to “unify a strategy” to free the remaining political prisoners & work towards “access to justice.”

Three Nicaraguan feminists persecuted by the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship speak of the regime’s true profile.

Rather than trying to tell Cuba I prefer to give the floor to the island’s inhabitants, and Lynn Cruz was in Marseille for a film festival.

For the first 90 days, she knew nothing about the fate of her 5-year-old daughter, who had been with her when she was violently abducted…

“We learned in jail to see humanity and dignity, even in the guards.” “The first 84 days were like being in a desert.”