I was a little angry

(EFE) .- Three of the 50 anti-government protesters who were released this Friday recounted the ill-treatment they suffered when they were arrested for protesting against the Nicaraguan government, headed by Sandinista Daniel Ortega.

Franklin Artola, 28, detained since September 23, told Efe that the guards had beaten him with a group of prisoners of conscience for singing Nicaragua's national anthem and shouted "Country free or dead ".

In addition, they could neither claim nor ask for water because they were handcuffed in punishment rooms where they were beaten.

In addition, they suffered verbal and physical violence from the national penitentiary system, which cut off their water and electricity and threatened them even with the authority to kill them.

"I spent nearly seven months in jail and seven months of repression" in the maximum security prison known as "The Modelo," he said.

Jefry Ortega Orozco, 24, told Efe that he had suffered psychological and verbal damage.

According to her testimony, during the first months of her detention, the prison authorities forced them to comply with a "fairly powerful regime" consisting in particular to stay awake early in the morning to check the presence of all prisoners.

One of the guards, he said, hit the grocery store with a chain as an alarm signal for the prisoners to get up.

"I had a little trouble waiting for them to touch the chain with which they lifted us up," said Ortega Orozco, who, according to him, "has never been imprisoned".

Jefferson Padilla, 27, told Efe that staying in jail "was a very difficult, stressful and depressing situation."

He said he was "kidnapped" from his home. Police searched her without a warrant and were stripped of money and her belongings.

Later, he was transferred to a police district in Managua and then to El Chipote prison, where the legal aid service operates.

"It's hard to be there, they play psychologically with your mind, they instill fear," he explained.

Chipote Prison is a prison designated in recent years by humanitarian agencies as a torture center.

During his transfer to La Modelo, they lived "repressed by the officials" of the prison, who "considered them as cattle" and "beat" them, he denounced.

"They banned us from blue and white bracelets," which is the color of the Nicaraguan flag and the symbol of demonstrations against the government, he said.

The three former prisoners, who thanked God for their parole and their families for their resistance, badured that they would continue the struggle for a "free Nicaragua".

"I am very happy, because I had nothing to do, just to defend my country, for the freedom of our people, because we are truly with a president who is not president, that is "He's a murderer, he's a genocide," said Franklin Artola.

"It is not a president to kill children, young people, students, this is not a president," said the young man, for whom a president must support the peasants, the poor and do not send to kill anyone.

According to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), Nicaragua is experiencing a serious crisis that has resulted in 325 deaths since April 2018, although some groups bring to 568 the death toll, while the executive It recognizes only 199 and denounces an badbadination attempt. coup d'etat. EFE

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