2023-06-28 04:47:59
TEGUCIGALPA
“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 Monday on the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.
That and other testimonies are in the report “Systematization of 158 cases of torture”, prepared by the team of the Nicaragua Nunca Más Human Rights Collective, in the framework of the crisis that Nicaragua has been experiencing since April 2018. The Collective, which documented testimonies of 158 released and built a file with each one, explained that the report does not mention any names of the victims, nor their initials, “to protect their identity and that of their family, as well as to expose them to greater state reprisals in their once morest”.
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 rape, without ejaculating on her. She “he told me I mightn’t risk getting a terrorist bitch like me potbellied, 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 him for my clothes and I was left crying, ”she related.
Then, she said, two officers subordinate to the police chief abused her, and then three more joined her. The sexual abuse of her became a nightmare every day for her.
In its report, the Collective managed to identify at least 40 forms or methods of torture in the 158 documented testimonies. 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 handcuffs that are too tight.
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 once morest 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 “Russian roulette”, interrupted their sleep and coerced them to take drugs. 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.
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 following the general elections on November 7, in which President Daniel Ortega was re-elected for a fifth term, fourth in a row and second along with his wife Rosario Murillo as vice president. , with its main contenders in prison. (EFE)
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