Not less eight priests detained by the dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua have reportedly been transferred to the El Chipote prison _ a torture facility for political prisoners, last weekend.
Disclosing this to the Nicaraguan daily; El Confidencial by a priest who preferred to remain anonymous, the priest explained that the eight priests who were under “house arrest” at Our Lady of Fatima National Seminary in Managua were transferred to El Chipote in the early hours of Sunday, October 15.
However, lawyers representing the priests have noted that the clerics’ relatives lacked updated information about their location, other than the fact that some of them were no longer at the seminary.
According to the Bishops Conference of Nicaragua, the imprisoned priests are; Frs. Cristóbal Gadea, Julio Ricardo Norori, Iván Centeno, Álvaro Toledo, Yesner Cipriano Pineda, Ramón Esteban Angulo Reyes, Eugenio Rodríguez Benavides, and Osman Amador Guillén.
With the detention of these 8 priests, the government of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, has now imprisoned 13 priests, most of whom belong to the Diocese of Estelí, whose apostolic administrator, Bishop Rolando Álvarez, was unjustly sentenced in February to 26 years and four months in prison as a “traitor to the homeland.”
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