MIAMI, United States. – Political prisoner Brenda Díaz, sentenced to 14 years in prison for allegedly demonstrating against the island’s regime on July 11, 2021was beaten in the Cuba-Panama prison, in Güines, in the province of Mayabeque, denounced her mother, Ana María García, in statements to Radio Television Martí.
“The prison director did not let me see her and says that they did not hit her, but I know that she was physically mistreated; And when we left the meeting, the State Security officer told me that she had indeed received some blows because she struggled, “García told this medium.
“He told me: ‘I give you my word that never again will she be mistreated here in this prison.’ I replied: ‘Look, the only thing I want is for them to set her free because she is not a murderer, she did nothing to keep her locked up there for 14 years and on top of everything mistreating her,’ “said the mother of the 29-year-old .
Brenda Díaz, whom the authorities have threatened to prosecute, also for contempt, can only be visited in jail by a lawyer, García lamented.
“I am going to take a lawyer to the prison tomorrow so that he can tell me in the situation that my daughter is in a punishment cell,” said the woman.
García also assured that the State Security officer with whom he met asked him to stop using social networks and the media to denounce his daughter’s situation.
“I told her that she couldn’t do that because, if they were killing her that way… if I keep quiet, they’re going to kill her even more,” she asserted.
Brenda Díaz was sentenced to 14 years in prison for the alleged crimes of continuous public disorder and sabotage. Despite being a trans woman, the regime imprisoned her in the men’s section of the Cuba-Panama prison, where she was shaved shaved and forced to wear men’s clothing.
