HAVANA, Cuba. – 11J prisoners Denis Hernández Ramírez, Joel Díaz Hernández and Aleandry Lechuga Junco denounced by telephone on August 6 the conditions of captivity suffered by inmates in the maximum-rigor prison in Guanajay, specifically those who are locked up in detachment number 10, mostly protesters of the 11J. 11J.
Hernández Ramírez referred to the poor hygiene and sanitary conditions of the facility, which they have reported “on several occasions” to the competent authorities, he said.
The inmate also highlighted “the huge number of cockroaches” that “sleep with them,” and added that there are plagues of other vectors such as gnats, mosquitoes and bedbugs (the latter have infested the boards of the triple bunk beds).
The 11J protester also denounced the poor ventilation in the detachment, as well as the poor quality of the food: “tasteless, without protein and without the right to a balanced diet.” He also reported that, frequently, as happened on August 3, they are served a pasty substance – whose composition the prisoners do not know – with a “very bad smell” and “practically rotten.”
For his part, the also prisoner of 11J Joel Díaz Hernández, vice president of the Insurrectional Civic Alliance Movement (MACI), chaired by Rolando Yusef Perez Morera (an activist and 11J protester who is also in prison) also denounced the overcrowding, the “inhumane” conditions and the presence of numerous disease-transmitting vectors, such as bedbugs and cockroaches.
Díaz Hernández also referred to the “tremendous humidity” that exists in detachment 10, whose bathrooms are “full of slime” and said that “cleanliness is chaotic and food, worse.”
Another 11J protester imprisoned in Guanajay prison’s 10th detachment, Aleandry Lechuga Junco, also denounced the poor living conditions to which the military subject them. “This is like a pasture, there are all kinds of bugs, bedbugs and cockroaches alike.”
Lechuga Junco described what is done to them as “criminal”: the poor conditions of captivity, poor nutrition and lack of ventilation.
The 9/11 prisoner described the food as “poorly prepared” and “smelled rotten.” He said the rice ration was about 140 or 150 grams and was accompanied by “a pasta with worms” and a soup “which is boiled water, so clear that you can see the bottom of the container.”
Lechuga Junco also indicated that the 54 prisoners who make up the detachment have only one space on the floor for their physiological needs.
“It’s not for humans, it’s for animals,” he said.
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