Madrid/Yenisey Taboada Ortiz, mother of the 11J political prisoner Duannis León Taboadain hunger strike in the team of the East, in Havana, he managed to make the director of that maximum security prison “his word” that he could see and talk to his son this Friday. The woman had spent several hours “planted” at the gates of the prison.
As the activist reported Friday Tania taséresident in Germany, a doctor attended Taboada, who had “low pressure and quartered lips”, and determined that his general state of health was “good.” The “dynamic” appointment that they promised him with the presence of Duannis will be at noon today.
“I am serene, but do not make mistakes, I’m firm. I can’t keep waiting for a call. What do you want, my son dies?” The woman told Martí News After communicating that He would not move from the prison door until they let her see Duannis. “As a mother, I need to see it, do everything possible to depose the strike, because your life is a priority for me.”
According to the Cultural Rights Observatory, Duannis León remains in his usual cell without medical attention
According to the Cultural Rights Observatory, with a source in other inmates, Duannis León, who since Monday is incommunicado, remains in his usual cell without medical care. “In the morning they said he was weak but stable, lying in his bed. Already in the afternoon the prisoners say that he can hardly open his eyes,” was one of the statements of those prisoners collected by the organization.
Duannis León Taboada, who turns a 14 -year sentence for sedition for his participation in the protests of July 11, 2021, declared a week ago on a hunger and thirst strike. His mother told 14ymedio On Tuesday that that same day he had water, but that he was “very weak.”
After exercising pressure and being until seven o’clock at night in the east combined, they allowed him a phone call, the woman also narrated. “I want my freedom, mom,” Duannis told him while commenting that he started the strike “for all protesters and for the mothers who are still suffering.”
The young man, who will turn 27 on August 19, served as a barber on his own when he participated in the massive protest, specifically in the emblematic Toyo cornerwhich left as a symbol of that day a turned police patrol and protesters flying the Cuban flag. The Ten of October Court that judged it, along with 32 defendants, In January 2022it was relentless with the convictions, which reached up to 30 years in jail.
Nando OBDC has been in provisional prison for almost seven months without the Prosecutor’s Office having even issued a petition
Another hunger strike prisoner is the rapper Fernando Almenares Riveraknown as Nando OBDC, which has been in provisional prison for almost seven months without the Prosecutor’s Office having even issued a petition. As his wife, Adrianna Machado explained to this newspaper, “is planted since the 20th.” The artist is accused of “propaganda against the constitutional order”, for being involved in “subversive activities” and having links with people who promote “terrorism against the Cuban State.”
Nando Obdc was arrested on December 31, 2024 in his home in the Havana Municipality of La Lisa and was held in Villa Marista, the State Security General, more than a month. Then, they held him in the mixed prison for patients with AIDS Cuba-Panama, in Güines, Mayabeque, whose conditions have denounced organizations such as Cubalex.
