Information on the requested subjects could
not be found among the sources consulted by the DIRB.
A staff member of the Comisión
Permanente de Derechos Humanos (CPDH) of Nicaragua, in a 17 January
1995 telephone interview, stated that treatment of prisoners is
generally the same in all jails. Some prisoners are subjected to
physical abuse by guards, particularly during interrogations, as a
result of actual or perceived disciplinary problems, or for other
reasons (ibid.). The government's limited resources have resulted
in a poor quality of facilities and services, including
insufficient or low-quality food (ibid.). Details on the
authorities responsible for Jinotepe jail during the requested
period were not readily available to the source.
For background information on the prison
system in Nicaragua, please refer to previous Responses to
Information Requests and their attachments, such as NIC22385.E of
29 Nov. 1995 and NIC20204.E of 29 Mar. 1995, which are available
through your Regional Documentation Centre.
This Response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the DIRB within time constraints. This Response is not, and does
not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular
claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below a list of
sources consulted in researching this Information Request.
Reference
Comisión Permanente de Derechos
Humanos (CPDH), Managua. 17 January 1995. Telephone interview with
staff member.
Additional Sources Consulted
Amnesty International Report.
Yearly.
Central America NewsPak [Austin,
Tex.]. Fortnightly.
Central America Report
[Guatemala]. Weekly.
Country Reports on Human Rights
Practices. Yearly. U.S. Department of State. Washington: U.S.
Government Printing Office.
Critique: Review of the Department of
State's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. Yearly. New
York: Lawyers Committee for Human Rights.
Human Rights Watch World Report.
Yearly. New York: Human Rights Watch.
News from Human Rights
Watch/Americas [New York]. Monthly.
Latinamerica Press [Lima].
Weekly.
Latin American Weekly Report
[London]. Weekly.
Latin American Regional Reports:
Central America & the Caribbean [London]. Monthly.
Material from the Indexed Media
Review (IMR) or country files containing articles and reports
from diverse sources (primarily dailies and periodicals) from the
Weekly Media Review.
Newspapers and periodicals pertaining to
the appropriate region.
IRB, USINS and UNHCR databases.
On-line searches of news articles.
Note on oral sources:
Oral sources are usually contacted when
documentary sources have been exhausted. However, oral sources must
agree to be quoted in a publicly available Response to
Information Request. If they refuse, the Response will read "no
information currently available." Contacting oral sources is also
subject to time constraints; for example, there are periods of the
year when academics are unavailable.
Note:
This list is not exhaustive.
Country-specific books available in the Resource Centre are not
included.