Havana Cuba. – After one year of the historic demonstrations that took place on July 11, 2021 (11J), the opposition Carlos Manuel Pupo Rodríguez, imprisoned for participating in these protests, sent a message to Cubans.
The leader of the Union for Free Cuba Party (PUNCLI) is currently being held in the Kilo Cinco y Medio prison, located in Pinar del Río province, and faces a six-year prison sentence for participating in the San Antonio de los Baños demonstration. , province of Artemis.
In the audio, provided to CubaNet by José Elías González Agüero, a member of the PUNCLI board, the opponent recalled that the historic protests marked a “before and after” in the fight for democracy and freedom in Cuba.
“This July 11, 2022 marks the first anniversary of the protest; the nonviolent civic disobedience in Cuba that marked a before and after for the freedom and democracy of our beloved and long-suffering homeland. The great manifestation of national dignity, as many have called it, gave a loud shout or knock to the opprobrious communist regime and demonstrated to many in much of the world the desire of our always rebellious nation to be free, “said the opponent.
Pupo Rodríguez has been in the prison infirmary since June 9 after leading a hunger strike that began on May 21, 2022 to demand that the Cuban regime immediately release political prisoners and respect the Mandela Rules in prisons. of the Island, according to González Agüero.
According to this source, after several days of fasting, the authorities were forced to urgently transfer Pupo Rodríguez to the Provincial Hospital of Pinar del Río. He is currently in the prison infirmary.
Carlos Manuel Pupo Rodríguez is also part of the “Emilia Project”, an initiative against the island’s regime whose leader is the former political prisoner Oscar Elias Biscet.
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