MADRID, Spain.- The authorities of the Kilo 5 y Medio prison, in the province of Pinar del Río, accuse the Cuban musician and political prisoner Maykel Castillo Pérez (El Osorbo) of organizing an alleged riot inside the prison.
According to the rapper, this was the reason why they installed a surveillance camera in his cell at the beginning of the current month.
“Ana: They put a camera on me in the prison because we were supposedly organizing a mutiny in Company 5. State Security and MININT forces (about 80 guards), in the presence of the MININT delegate, first colonel, took over the prison and They determined to arbitrarily put eight inmates in the cell because, supposedly at my command, they were going to riot,” El Osorbo explained in a letter sent to art historian and activist Anamely Ramos.
“After three days, seeing that they did not leave the cell, on Saturday, January 7, I decided to go to the cell too, until they put my friends in their companies. On Tuesday, January 10, when they finally decided to remove them, they also removed me. Since then I have been in Section 3, with a 24-hour camera installed. According to them I am very dangerous, “said the musician.
By sharing in Twitter In the letter, Anamely Ramos recalled that Maykel Osorbo will serve two years in prison on May 18, 2023. That day “they took him barefoot and shirtless from his house, and without any order.”
“The UN and numerous NGOs defending DD. H H. They have demanded their freedom. But dictatorships do not understand freedom, only repression,” Ramos said.
A few days ago, we made public that Maykel Osorbo had been installed a surveillance camera in the prison. Now we learned more about the reasons for this and we want to share it with everyone, at the request of Maykel himself and reproducing his words. #FreeMaykelOsorbo #FreeLuisma pic.twitter.com/EIEE3WhEM9
— Anamely Ramos González (@AnamelyRamos) January 30, 2023
Surveillance camera in Maykel Osorbo’s cell
On January 12, Anamely Ramos denounced that prison guards had installed a security camera in the musician’s cell.
“We learned today, on a call with Maykel himself, that a security camera was installed in his galley. It happened just when they recently changed companies, ”he explained on that occasion.
“It is not enough that Maykel is in prison. It is not enough that he is sick and has scabies. It is not enough that he has a nine-year prison sentence when even the UN has demanded his release. Not a minute of Maykel’s life can be left out of his control, ”said the opponent.
Shows of support for the musician
In April of last year, Cuban-American congressman Mario Díaz-Balart announced that he had met with Irish singer Paul David Hewson, known worldwide as Bono, with whom he spoke about the situation of Maykel Osorbo and Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara.
A few months later, the Venezuelan singer-songwriter Ricardo Montaner got engaged publicly to sponsor Maykel Osorbo.
“He is a young boy who is in the prisons of Cuba. Maykel Osorbo is also a composer, an integral part of the group that he wrote ‘Patria y Vida’ and he is right now in the prisons of Cuba paying because, according to what they told him, he was a danger to society”, declared Montaner.
This month the prestigious magazine rolling stonesIn an extensive article dedicated to the rapper, he noted: “The sentence was painful for him and for those who had been following the case. Osorbo will turn 40 this August; he will be almost 50 years old when he is released”.
The sentence against Maykel Osorbo was published on June 24, 2022 through a statement issued by the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR).
