In the last few months, bars have been installed over the ceiling of her cell, further isolating the 52-year-old political prisoner who has been jailed twice.
HAVANA TIMES – The “Released Political Prisoners’ Reflection Group” (GREX) denounced the current situation of Nicaraguan political prisoner Olesia Munoz Pavon, 52, who has been imprisoned for a total of 755 days and is suffering from worsening physical and psychological health.
Before 2018, Olesia Muñoz was known for many years as a choir singer, musician and music teacher who sang sacral music in her native Niquinohomo’s Santa Ana Church. She belonged to the choir there until she was arrested in July 2018 for aiding the protestors who had set up barricades. Released in June 2019, she was rearrested on Holy Thursday in April 2023, in the context of the fifth anniversary of the April protests. Some 15 police and paramilitaries went to her house, requesting that she accompany them for an “interview”, from which she never returned.In a kangaroo trial held in September 2023, Olesia was sentenced to ten years for the Ortega dictatorship’s catch-all accusations: “conspiracy to undermine the national sovereignty” and “spreading fake news.”
Now, according to GREX, despite her staunch Catholic faith, she says she feels “desperate.” Her isolation and confinement was recently exacerbated when the authoritie
