Daniel Ortega is still holding hundreds of political prisoners including candidates who challenged him last year and is still defying U.S. and E.U. sanctions.
The Nicaraguan political prisoner has spent 200 days in an isolation cell in the infamous El Chipote jail. Pinita Gurdian, Vijil’s mother, asks to see her daughter.
The organizations have demanded the release of all political prisoners who after the new arrests, already number more than 170 in the different prisons