‘Riverdale’ solid requires showrunner’s father to be released by Nicaraguan authorities

The solid of the CW sequence “Riverdale” requested followers to enhance their push for the start of their showrunner’s father in Nicaragua, who his household fears is being held as a political prisoner after he changed into as soon as arrested in July.

Police detained the person, Francisco Aguirre-Sacasa, Nicaragua’s feeble international minister, on July 27 after authorities stopped him from traveling to Costa Rica, the U.S. Issue Department stated.

His household has no longer heard from him since then and worries that he has been “disappeared” for his opposition to basically the most neatly-liked regime, his son Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, the showrunner of “Riverdale,” stated on Instagram final month.

Actors Cole Sprouse, Lili Reinhart, KJ Apa, Camila Mendes and diversified people of the “Riverdale” solid posted a video asking followers to expend the #FreeFrancisco hashtag on social media and to sign a petition tense the start of political prisoners in Nicaragua.

“Roberto’s father and a dozen diversified activists were kidnapped and arrested. No person is conscious of where they’re being held, within the occasion that they’re being given meals, water or pills,” Reinhart stated.

Mendes stated, “We’re imploring you to expend your voices to position pressure on the global community and rectify this miscarriage of justice, no longer correct for Francisco, but for any political leaders who set apart their lives on the line to create this world a better convey.”

The Nicaraguan authorities has been accused of rounding up opponents of President Daniel Ortega and preserving them as political prisoners. The Issue Department stated final month that it changed into as soon as restricting visas to heaps of politicians from the nation after no longer less than 32 political opponents and pro-democracy activists were arrested, together with seven presidential candidates.

In his post final month, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa requested other folk to pray for his father, who is 76, and the others who disappeared after their arrests.

“My father needs Nicaragua to be a free, democratic nation,” he wrote. “He’s dedicated his lifestyles to the betterment of his fatherland and its electorate. It’s gotten him into anxiety before, but by no technique as dire as this. We distress the worst.”