Dora María Téllez, a renowned former Sandinista guerrilla commander, historian and leader of the left-wing Unamos political party, was released this month after 605 nights in El Chipote prison in Nicaragua's capital, Managua.
Charged with treason and kept in solitary confinement, her life was reduced to daily exercise and eating scraps of food in her small cell. Hygiene facilities were poor.
Her only real human interaction was with her interrogators.
