Since their abduction months ago, Carlos Bojorge, Freddy Quezada, and Brooklyn Rivera have not been seen by their families or their lawyers.
HAVANA TIMES – The relatives of poet Carlos Bojorge have not heard anything about him for six months since he was detained on January 1, 2024. They have searched for him at the El Chipote police station, where political prisoners are frequently taken; at La Modelo prison in Tipitapa; and at various police stations in Managua. However, the regime’s authorities do not respond to where he is or in what condition he is in. They also don’t say if he has been charged in any court.
At Station Three, the police even recommended that they file a report for his disappearance, and the National Penitentiary System told them to search for him at the morgue of the Institute of Legal Medicine.
However, a photograph, leaked a couple of months ago by other prisoners of La Modelo prison, shows Bojorge in that prison wearing the blue uniform of inmates, yet the jailers denied he was there.
“His mother went to the Penitentiary System, and the regime’s officials continued to argue that if he (Bojorge) were detained in that prison, they would gladly inform her,” said Alexandra Salazar, coordinator of the Legal Defense Unit.
Along with Carlos Bojorge, there are two other political prisoners in “forced disappearance by concealment of whereabouts,” according to the lawyers team. Former indigenous deputy Brooklyn Rivera, abducted on September 29, 2023, and university professor Freddy Quezada, detained on November 29, 2023, at his home in Managua.
“To date, the authorities continue to deny information about the whereabouts of Brooklyn Rivera, Freddy Quezada, and Carlos Bojorge. All communication b
