Since last August 4, the Cuban opponent Félix Navarro has been isolated in the infirmary of the Agüica prison, in Matanzas, due to a new infection by covid-19. the activist Rosa Maria Paya He denounced through Facebook that “for almost three weeks they have not allowed him to communicate with his family.”
Navarro, who was convicted of crimes from “attack” and “public disorder” to 9 years in prison just for going out to demonstrate on July 11, according to Payá, he was taken from his cell and the inmates have not heard from him since. Sonia Álvarez, wife of the former Black Spring prisoner, had expressed concern about his deteriorating state of health, which was aggravated by diabetes and a lung injury that she suffers from.
Last June, the activist Ania Zamora confirmed to Radio Television Marti that Navarro received antibioticsin addition to the fact that he still has sequelae from last year’s covid contagion and “had infected pimples due to bedbug bites” that are in the prison.
Zamora specified that Navarro’s family had been informed that “the visits he could receive in the Agüica prison would be every forty-five days” and the last one would have been on June 7.
Sonia Álvarez, wife of the former Black Spring prisoner, had expressed concern about the deteriorating state of her health, which was aggravated by diabetes and a lung injury that she suffers from.
On July 28, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) granted Precautionary measures in favor of Félix Navarronoting that he is in a “serious and urgent situation of risk of irreparable damage to his rights in Cuba.”
Family members and a lawyer told the IACHR of the difficulties they have faced in maintaining contact and visits, as well as obtaining information about their detention and health conditions. They also indicated that the opponent suffers from diabetes and migraine.
After analyzing the allegations of fact and law, the IACHR considered that the information presented demonstrates prima facie that Navarro is in a serious and urgent situation, for which he asked the Government of Cuba “to adopt the necessary measures to protect the rights to life” of the opponent. Situation that has not been addressed.
The lock that the regime has placed on Navarro’s case so that his family is kept incommunicado about his situation seems to be a constant on the island. No one gives a reason for the health of the 68-year-old opponent, who was one of the political prisoners of the Black Spring 2003, when 75 opponents and independent journalists received long prison sentences.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights asked the Government of Cuba “to adopt the necessary measures to protect the rights to life” of the opponent. Situation that has not been addressed
Just as they have tried to keep the Navarro case to a trickle, users have also expressed their dissatisfaction with the poor internet service, curiously since the explosion of the fire that devoured the Matanzas Supertanker Base on August 5.
This Monday, the Twitter user called El Demócrata denounced: “I have no landline service and very little internet for data.” Another user praised Etecsa to point out that “always when the power goes out at the same time as the internet, it gets very bad. Like now in Nuevo Vedado.”
“Cuba’s dictators are inhumane without empathy who even removed internet communications and Matanzas can neither inform nor communicate with their relatives,” said a user identified as Yuli Libertad on Twitter. “This is a crime to want to hide what is really happening.”
One day before Yuli Libertad’s comment, the telecommunications company Etecsa, through which all Cubans inside and outside the island process their recharges and buy their data packages for internet use and other services, assured the provision service, including hours later guaranteed coverage in “facilities where fire containment, evacuation zones and health areas are managed”.
Failures in the service were notorious in users of social networks. Under the pseudonym El Makina, frank indicated that due to his bad connection it was not until August 6 that he was able to connect and find out details of the “disaster” in Matanzas and of the wounded and missing. “Cuba hurts a lot and those most affected are always those forced to resist.”
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