“I saw it with enough weight loss,” said his mother, who finally managed to visit him at the East Combined Hospital.
Miami, United States. – The Cuban political prisoner Duannis León Taboada suspended on Tuesday the hunger strike he had initiated on July 18 in the Maximum Combined Security prison of the East, in Havana, his mother, Jenny Taboada, reported to the middle, in the middle Martí News.
“We achieved it among all,” said the young man’s mother after the encounter with her son, finally authorized by the prison authorities after intense claims by relatives, activists and human rights defenders inside and outside the island. “I saw him with enough weight loss. Now he will keep inside the hospital to check the kidney,” said Taboada, who had been demanding to see his son for several days.
Duannis León Taboada, sentenced to 14 years in prison for participating in the anti -government protests of July 11, 2021, declared a hunger and thirst strike as a form of protest to demand “justice and freedom.” According to his mother, after four days of absolute fasting, the young man agreed to ingest water at the insistence of her, but since then he was incommunicado.
The mother of the political prisoner had publicly expressed his willingness to remain in front of the prison until he obtained an answer. “His life is a priority for me,” he said in a live broadcast from the immediate vicinity of the east combined, last Thursday.
Although the authorities promised him a visit for the following Friday, when he went to the prison he was arrested and taken to the Guanabacoa police unit, she confirmed herself in an interview granted to Cubanet.
On Monday, Cuban American congressman Mario Díaz-Balart He joined the claims for the liberation of the young political prisoner and publicly denounced the case. “He is only 27 years old and a life ahead. He was unjustly imprisoned for only participating in the historical Protests of 11J in Cuba,” he wrote on his social networks.
Díaz-Balart also responsible for those who support economic relations with Havana: “All those who continue to finance the murderous regime in Cuba, are also complicit in oppression and the brutality that this authoritarian regime exercises against their people and against Duannis and her mother.”
León Taboada has repeatedly denounced the inhuman treatment he has received during his imprisonment, as well as the lack of procedural guarantees in the trial that condemned him. His case has been visible by different organizations that document the situation of political prisoners in Cuba.
