Havana Cuba. – From the most rigorous prison El Pitirre, also known as 15-80, located in San Miguel del Padrón, the political prisoner Yasser Fernando Rodríguez González denounces the lack of existing conditions in the prison, which makes life difficult for the prisoners. internal.
Through a brief and limited telephone call, the political prisoner announced that of the three existing cubicles in Company 2, where he is currently located, there are only lamps in the third, so the remaining two, including his They remain in the dark.
Rodríguez González also pointed out that the demonstrator of the 11Jhuman rights activist and opponent Walfrido Rodríguez Pilota prisoner in Company 1, is forced to sleep on the floor because the board that serves as a bed is infested with bedbugs and the military refuses to change it despite the fact that the activist has denounced this circumstance on multiple occasions to prison officials.
The political prisoner stressed that the hours assigned to inmates to talk on the phone are too restricted, as they are only given a few minutes “once every 15 or 20 days.” He also referred to other deficiencies present in the installation and emphasized that all of them are known to all the heads of the 15-80, such as the bad taste and incorrect preparation of the food or that the television of the Company 2 is broken and the military in command does not take steps to repair it, alleging that there are no personnel available for it.
Rodríguez González also highlighted the great disorganization prevailing in the unit, which manifests itself in frequent company changes, transfers, etc. The political prisoner exemplified that he himself was about to be transferred to Pinar del Río: they even made him get off the transport where he was already mounted, as he learned later, because officer Gerardo of Section 21 (Crimes against the Security of the State) gave the order that he could not leave Havana.
Yasser Fernando Rodríguez González was imprisoned on November 25, 2020 in retaliation for broadcasting several direct messages on his Facebook profile in which he urged the people of Cuba to lose their fear and unite to achieve the end of the Castro dictatorship. After more than 12 months held captive without trial, he was sentenced to seven years in prison for the alleged crime of “inciting rebellion.”
