The opponent, vice president of the Monr and promoter of Cuba decides, remains isolated since July 26 in prison 1580, without visits or calls, after being beaten for refusing to use the inmate uniform.
Havana, Cuba.- The Cuban political prisoner Mario Alberto Hernández Leyva is in punishment cell, without the right to visits or telephone calls, since July 26. Hernández Leyva, vice president of the OPPOSITOR MOVEMENT FOR A NEW REPUBLIC (MONR), It was also recently beaten by prison guards 1580, where he is serving a sentence.
As reported by the opponent Adrián Curuneaux Stivens through a phone call, Mario was transferred to the cell by the head of Lexis Borrero Unit and the head of the internal order Yolexis Garlobo, although the reasons are unknown.
Curuneaux Stivens reported that the Delegate of the Democracy Movement was coupled with “that damaged an arm”, to force him to put the inmate uniform, which he does not use.
“He is in a beaten punishment cell and told him that they will not take it out until the 13th that he has their freedom,” he said.
Hernández Leyva, also the promoter of the Cuba Cuba Decide, has been imprisoned since June 20, 2024, when he was arrested by State Security Agents in the Central Park.
The trial against him took place on July 15 of that year and was sentenced for the alleged crimes of resistance and contempt of two years in prison.
At the end of March, The Inter -American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) He granted precautionary measures in favor of the opponent, because he considered that he is at risk of “irreparable damage” to his rights to life, personal integrity and health and asked the Cuban government to “implement the necessary measures so that their detention conditions are adapted to applicable international standards.”
The agency said that Hernández Leyva has been repeatedly arrested since 2023, whose arrests have been reported, transfers to punishment cells, torture, coercion and lack of medical assistance, which resulted in a “deterioration of its health status, with signs of malnutrition and mental affectation”.
