(EFE) the limits of abuse and torture have already passed” and that he does not expect “nothing good” for 2023 in terms of human rights on the Island.
“I left more than 60 political prisoners in the Combinado,” Díaz Silva, 62, and leader of the Movimiento Opositores por una Nueva República (MONR) movement, founded in 2002 and currently with some 48 members in prison, told EFE on Tuesday, according to details. .
Díaz Silva arrived in Miami last Saturday on an American Airlines flight with his wife, Lourdes Esquivel, a member of the opposition women’s organization Damas de Blanco.
As he narrated, he spent the last ten months in a cell three meters wide by five meters long in the Combinado del Este, the jail for common prisoners located to the east of the capital.
As he narrated, he spent the last ten months in a cell three meters wide by five meters long in the Combinado del Este, the jail for common prisoners located to the east of the capital.
“I am 62 years old, we have nothing to boast about, not even a nice park. The main offender is the police, supported by judges and courts. Hunger, misery and suffering is what there is in Cuba at the moment,” he said, and asked ” to the international community” to intercede for the situation of political prisoners, some of them mothers of minors.
Díaz Silva, father of two political refugees who, according to what he says, “had to leave Cuba” before, José and Ernesto Díaz Esquivel, aged 42 and 35, respectively, assures that the government imprisoned him in order to force him to leave the country.
“That is what they are doing. They have us there as a means of exchange. I hope that the United States does not lend itself to this deception,” said the opponent from Fort Myers, on the west coast of Florida, who was granted a humanitarian visa by the United States. .
“I am 62 years old, I was going to die there, but they forced me to leave the country, to a man who did not commit crimes. Those judges and prosecutors have to be condemned by the international community,” denounced the opponent, for whom the Prosecutor’s Office He had requested 14 years in prison, as detailed.
The opponent explained that the intention of the Cuban government was to get him out via Nicaragua or Europe, but he refused, until the US granted him a humanitarian visa to join his children in South Florida.
“I resisted avoiding confrontation. What they were looking for was that I had a problem with an officer to accuse me of contempt. If I didn’t die in prison, they were going to kill me. They told me so themselves,” he said.
“There is no hope, none. In 2004 I was imprisoned with my two children and I had hope and look, we are at the end of 2022 and nothing. A tyrant left but there is another,” he said.
Díaz Silva stressed that he does not have any hope for next year.
“There is no hope, none. In 2004 I was imprisoned with my two children and I had hope and look, we are at the end of 2022 and nothing. A tyrant left but there is another,” he said.
Díaz Silva calls on “the international community” to intercede for the situation of political prisoners and cites the case of Lisandra Góngora, mother of five children, who is in the El Guatao prison.
“That is criminal. That must be condemned. Having a woman imprisoned like that is criminal. But I am happy to be able to denounce. We are doing a work with each complaint, for the families of the prisoners and for the prisoners themselves,” he added.
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