HAVANA, Cuba.- From the Combinado del Este prison center, located in the capital of the island, the 11J protester Alexis Borges Wilson denounced that for several months he has suffered from a loss of vision for which he has not received medical attention in that facility.
Alexis Borges Wilson is 57 years old. As he explained, since the symptoms began he has demanded that the authorities of the largest prison in the country take him to an ophthalmology consultation, but so far he has not received a response. The protester stressed that the loss of vision that he suffers is progressive and accelerated, so that with each passing day he sees less.
During the popular outcry that occurred on July 11, 2021, Alexis Borges witnessed how police, riot soldiers, and other individuals dressed in civilian clothes suppressed the demonstration using stakes, stones, and other objects as weapons.
As he has recounted, in retaliation for his participation in the demonstration, he was violently arrested at approximately 3 am on July 12. Likewise, he explained to CubaNet that the agents who carried out the arrest invaded his property, broke down his back door and raided his home.
Subsequently, he was held prisoner for 39 days in the Criminal Investigation and Operations Division of 100 and Aldabó, where they applied various repressive techniques and even threatened to shoot him in the head. In that detention center, as he revealed, they made him lose track of time. Alexis Borges Wilson was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the alleged crime of “sedition.”
an unjust conviction
Last March, the political prisoner was in hunger strike to demand that his 20-year prison sentence be annulled or reduced.
“He has been on a hunger strike since Sunday. The police called us, the family, to go see him and convince him to leave her. Two of his sisters went to speak to him, but they did not achieve anything. He does not want to get rid of that because he says that he does not accept those 20 years, ”he said at the time, his niece Dayana Borges Pérez.
Borges Wilson received his final sentence in March along with 128 other protesters from the La Güinera and Toyo neighborhoods in Havana.
According to the Provisional Conclusions of the accusing body, Borges Wilson and the group of more than 200 people of which he was a part confronted the police with stones and sticks, who had formed a security cordon to prevent the advance of those who were protesting.
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