MADRID, Spain.- The political prisoner Yandier García Labrada, a member of the Movimiento Cristiano Liberación (MCL) and sentenced to five years in prison for protesting in a queue in the town of Manatí, province of Las Tunas, has presented episodes of asthma in the penitentiary center for not having the medicines.
As explained to Radio Television Martí His brother, Irán Almaguer Labrada, has had to resort to “matica teas and water” because “there (in jail) there was nothing.”
He also specified that he has been a chronic asthmatic since childhood and that his asthma attacks are very dangerous.
“These episodes hit him very often and with very strong crises,” he added.
This week the family was able to take the medicines to Yandier García Labrada at Guabineyón 8, located in Las Tunas; medicines that they got “in the black bag, because in the pharmacies here in Cuba, well, there is nothing,” said Iran Almaguer.
The prisoner’s brother said that, despite these conditions, and being very thin, he is “in good spirits and very firm, moving forward…”.
In this regard, the Christian Liberation Movement declared this Thursday: “On the one hand we are glad that his family was able to visit him, but the fundamental issue is that Yandier García Labrada should NEVER have been imprisoned and we will continue to demand his immediate release.”
The prisoner member of the MCL, Yandier Garcia Labrada, received a family visit yesterday, they were able to give him aerosol spray and a bag with food.
From the MCL we are happy about this visit, but we reiterate that Yandier should NEVER have been imprisoned and we demand his freedomhttps://t.co/tzbEUFJRJW— MCLcubaoficial (@mclcubaoficial) April 27, 2023
Yandier García Labrada was sentenced in July 2021 for protesting in a queue in the town of Manatí, Las Tunas province. The young peasant was arrested on October 6, 2020 and transferred to the “El Típico” prison, in Las Tunas.
The Christian Liberation Movement denounced that García Labrada’s trial was “a telematic trial full of irregularities, the prosecutor requested five years in prison for contempt, attack on authority and spread of epidemics.”
Other people who followed him in his claim were arrested with the farmer, but they were released hours later.
During the time he was incarcerated, his relatives they have denounced on numerous occasions punishments by the jailers, as well as suspensions of visits and telephone calls.
