Managua, Nicaragua.
the Government of Nicaragua, Through the Ministry of the Interior, Released this Friday to 900 prisoners, to whom he granted the legal benefit of family cohabitation, so that the number of released increased to 1,700 so far this year.
The detainees received the benefit of release from the family cohabitation regime during an event held at the headquarters of the National Penitentiary System, In the town of Tipitapa, neighboring Managua, Known as “The Model”, Nicaragua’s largest prison.
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“We give thanks for our good Government of Reconciliation and National Unity to continue contributing to the well-being of families by favoring more than 900 prisoners in the different prisons at the national level with the benefit of family coexistence, “said the Minister of the Interior. María Amelia Coronel, During the event.
Authorities have not specified whether some of the more than 150 opponents of the detainees are among those released Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (CENIDH), the Standing Committee on Human Rights (CPDH), and the Nicaragua Human Rights Collective Never More do they identify as “political prisoners,” or if the benefit only covered the so-called “common criminals.”
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So far this year Government of Nicaragua has released at least 1,700 convicts, the last 800 last March.
In 2020 the number of detainees sent home under the family cohabitation regime was 7,924.
The release of thousands of so-called “common criminals” is a practice of the President’s Government Daniel Ortega since the middle of the last decade.
This time the release, criticized by feminist movements such as the Network of Women against Violence, occurs two and a half months before the November 7 general election, in which Ortega seeks a third consecutive re-election and the second as the his wife Rosario Murillo, As vice president.