San José, June 14 (EFE).- An official media outlet in Nicaragua released this Sunday some photos of the indigenous leader Steadman Fagoth Müller, detained in September 2024, during a visit to his wife in prison, days after an opposition alliance requested a proof of life because they considered him a political prisoner in a condition of forced disappearance.
“We share a photo gallery of Steadman Fagot with his wife, Dr. Stefany Martínez, on Friday, June 12, during his Weekly Visit in the National Penitentiary System Room,” indicates the caption published by the newspaper El 19 on its website.
These are eleven photographs in which the leader and former presidential advisor for indigenous peoples policies appears with his wife in a room with a table on which two plates of food were served, and which has a watermark with the date 06/12/2026 and the time 11:13.
Last Thursday, the opposition National Blue and White Unit of Nicaragua asked the Government led by the husband and wife and co-presidents, Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, for proof of life of at least nine political prisoners who are in a condition of forced disappearance, among them Steadman Fagoth Müller.
The opposition alliance’s request took place after the death in state custody of the indigenous leader Brooklyn Rivera Brayan, 73, as reported by the Ministry of Health on May 31. The former deputy of the National Assembly (Parliament) had been arrested on September 29, 2023.
The Nicaraguan Police arrested Steadman Fagoth, indigenous leader and presidential advisor for indigenous peoples policies, in September 2024 for trying to “steal organic weapons” from the Army.
The arrest of the indigenous leader and presidential advisor occurred a day after Nicaraguan media broadcast statements in which he denounced the environmental impact following the massive arrival of heavily armed “settlers” (non-indigenous), with the alleged complicity of the authorities and security establishments, to the Bosawás Reserve, a territory near the border with Honduras where there are Miskito and Mayangna indigenous people. EFE
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