Havana Cuba. – From the maximum rigor prison in Guantanamo, prisoner Arturo Acosta Ramos denounces the attacks, torture and inhuman treatment perpetrated in that prison against several inmates.
Acosta Ramos points out that on September 5, prisoners Juan Carlos Simón Salazar and Maykel Pérez Columbié were locked up in the torture room called the “psychiatric room” by the prison staff, where they were tied to the cots.
According to reports, the prisoners protested and shouted because of the bedbug bites, while the military’s response was to beat them up to silence them, in which the inmate Simón Salazar was hit in the eye.
The prisoner points out that in response to his protests and announcing that he was going to complain to Havana, the re-educator, Major Eddie Ramírez, countered that this procedure was known and approved in the capital.
Acosta Ramos adds that during an inspection he denounced that he had been locked up with three prisoners so that they would beat him and seize his belongings when they took him to the hospital. However, he indicates that the authorities have not acted on the matter and has only received evasive responses.
He also complained that he did not have a towel, clothes or shoes, because his belongings disappeared. He stresses that the military’s reaction was to handcuff him and take him to an office where they tried to intimidate him and reprimand him for raising his situation with the inspectors.
They also assured him that they would try to get him a towel and a toothbrush, but up to the time of issuing this complaint they had not done so.
Acosta Ramos also denounces that in recent days he was denied the change to the minimum severity regimen, according to a prison official, due to “indiscipline that he had committed in Havana.”
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