Managua, Nicaragua.
The Nicaraguan University Alliance (TOT I) issued a “SOS for physical health and psychological condition” on Monday by youth opposition leader Lesther Alemany, known for reprimanding President Daniel Ortega in 2018, and who has been imprisoned since from the beginning of last July.
The student organization issued its call after learning that “the authorities of the Directorate of Legal Aid requested relatives to enter a drug to treat symptoms of vertigo or dizziness prescription.”
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“We raise a second SOS alert about the deterioration of the young person’s physical health and psychological condition, demanding adequate and independent medical care, with the application of drugs that are treated under medical prescription through a prescription,” indicated the STILL.
Alemany, 23, jumped into the public arena to face in a live televised broadcast President Ortega, the leader of the Sandinista Front for National Liberation (FSLN), who asked him to surrender in the framework of anti-government demonstrations that erupted in April 2018.
The student leader, whom the opposition considers a “political prisoner” since his arrest on July 6, was charged by the prosecution with the crime of “conspiracy to commit a violation of national integrity.”
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The FINS I TOT had already issued a first SOS on the 9th for the health of Alemany, which the condition called “serious and worrying, as a result of intense interrogations, psychological torture, and the almost non-existent communication with his relatives and lawyers “.
The young man’s mother, Lesbia Alfaro, has asked that her son be seen by a doctor, after learning that he was “skinny”, with problems getting up, hunger and apparent signs of dehydration, he said.
German is jailed in the National Police prison known as “The New Chipote”, along with 35 other opposition leaders and independent professionals, including seven presidential candidates, caught in a wave of arrests in the run-up to the elections. on November 7, in which Ortega seeks another re-election.