“Every day five men raped me,” say Ortega’s opponents in Nicaragua

“Every day I was raped by the same five men. Sometimes they took turns during the day. They repeated to me that they were going to burn me. On several occasions I wished they would kill me. I challenged them to kill me, because I didn’t want to stay alive.”, recalls a Nicaraguan opposition member in a report released this Monday on the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.

That and other testimonies are exposed in the report “Systematization of 158 cases of torture”, prepared by the team of the Human Rights Collective Nicaragua Never Againin the framework of the crisis that lives Nicaragua since April 2018.

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The Collective, which documented testimonies from 158 released prisoners and built a file with each one, explained that the report does not mention any names of the victims, nor their initials, “to protect her identity and that of her family, as well as exposing her to further state reprisals against her”.

In the testimony of the sexually abused young woman, she describes in detail how a police chief insulted her and then physically assaulted her before committing the act of rapewithout ejaculating in it.

“He told me that I could not take the risk of leaving a paunchy (pregnant) to a terrorist bitch like me, and I was menstruating. She took a handkerchief out of her bag and cleaned herself and told me: I’ll come back later because I have to enjoy it. I asked for my clothes and I was left crying”, he recounted.

Later, she said, two officers subordinate to the police chief abused her, and then three more joined her. The sexual abuse became a nightmare every day for her.

At least 40 methods of torture

In its report, the Collective was able to identify at least 40 forms or methods of torture in the 158 documented testimonies.

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Among them, he mentioned the beatings with fists and kicks they received from police agents, prisons, Army personnel and/or parastatal agents, which were denounced by 130 of the 158 documented cases.

Also injuries or blows with blunt objects or firearms, electric shocks, burns with cigarettes or melted black plastic on the skin, poisoning from tear gas canisters and excessively tight handcuffs.

In addition, shots at people, cold water baths, torture by suspension, strangulation, dry and wet suffocation, dragging, detachment of nails, torture by position, lacerations, and use of earth or ash.

Likewise, they used methods tending to gradually destroy the morality and emotional stability of people, such as isolation, overcrowding, deprivation of medical attention, multiple threats mainly against children and relatives, including death and mutilation of genital organs or some other part of the body.

According to the testimonies, the jailers also constantly induced them to commit suicide, or to play the “russian roulette”, interrupted their sleep and coerced them into taking drugs.

Forced nudity and sexual abuse

On the forms of sexual violence to the detriment of the victims and to which the Collective dedicated a separate chapter, 99 cases of forced nudity were denounced, 14 rape threats, 10 sexual abuse, 10 taking photos and videos under forced nudity, and 9 sexual violations.

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Likewise, the practice of sexual abuse during searches of female relatives of political prisoners and forced nudity during searches of family members was documented.

Nicaragua has been going through a political and social crisis since April 2018 that worsened after the general elections on November 7, in which the president Daniel Ortega he was re-elected to a fifth term, fourth in a row, and second along with his wife Rosario Murillo as vice president, with her main contenders in prison.

Source: Elcomercio

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