Tamara Dávila

Tamara and her daughter: separated by the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo

Tamara Dávila was arbitrarily detained by the Ortega-Murillo regime in June 2021, through an illegal search, while she was in the company of her young daughter. Every time she receives psychological torture, the police use the name of her six-year-old daughter to torment her.

“You are a bad mother. You left your daughter abandoned for protesting,” the jailers who are members of the police tell her, because they know that her daughter is one of the most important people in her life.

That is just one of the many methods of torture used by the regime to make her feel guilty, like other political prisoners, they are also interrogated daily to affect them psychologically.

Tamara is one of the women for whom the regime keeps a light on all day in her cell, which affects her sleeping hours, and to cause her greater suffering they decided to isolate her in a cell that her relatives describe as follows: instead of of having bars, she has bolts and they watch her all the time to prevent her from communicating with other people arbitrarily detained.

She is a human rights defender, a feminist who has focused on promoting the sexual and reproductive rights of women in Nicaragua and joined political activism after the outbreak of the social crisis in April 2018.

She became involved in the protests by bringing food to the students who had barricaded themselves in the Polytechnic University (UPOLI), one of the first houses of study whose students demonstrated against the regime.

Tamara lost her mother when she was young and began studying psychology at the university, so her thesis was developed around how young women experience grief, a subject that is rarely talked about in Nicaragua.

The regime detained her on June 12, 2021 and after a process in which the guarantees of due process were violated, Judge Félix Salmerón sentenced her to 8 years in prison and disqualified her from holding public office for undermining national integrity. The trial lasted six days and in the short time that she was allowed to speak at the end of the trial, Tamara expressed:

“I am innocent, my only crime has been to exercise my right to defend rights and denounce injustices. That is why I have been persecuted and illegally detained. Because of this I have been under permanent surveillance by the Police for more than six months. Despite not putting up any resistance on the day of my arrest, they hit me in the face several times until I bled.”

Tamara has, since November 4, 2021, provisional measures granted by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights that are aimed at protecting her life and personal integrity, however, the Ortega regime continues to ignore what the Court ordered.

Freedom for Tamara Dávila!

We demand to the Ortega-Murillo regime: Free Nicas Now!