Human Rights: Taxi Protest Leads to Mass Imprisonments

Ivania de Socorro Roque told The Nicaragua Dispatch that her husband, Alexis Selva, 39, was beaten viciously by 10 cops in the back of a police truck. She had to speak on his behalf because her husband is in a hospital bed with his jaw wired shut. Roque says Selva’s jaw and teeth were broken with the butt of a rifle. “Alexis is the only one in our family who has a job,” Roque said between tearful sniffles. “If he doesn’t work, our three children don’t eat.”

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