Since September 12, the opponent would have declared a hunger strike.
Havana, Cuba. – Human Rights activist and manifesting 11J Walfrido Rodríguez Pilot Cubanet The also manifest of 11j Alexis Borges Wilson Last Wednesday, September 25.
According to Borges Wilson, on the 12th, corresponding to the family visit, Rodríguez Pilot had protested by the delay at the entrance of the relatives, caused by “exaggeratedly thorough” requirements by the military.
In turn, Rodríguez Pilot’s sister, Marty Rodríguez, assured Cubanet That when the political prisoner said once, the meeting was over, he shouted the slogan “homeland and life.” Immediately one of the guards caught his attention so that he did not shout, to which the activist replied that he was not going to shut up, because he had the right to speak and was free to say what he wanted.
Upon listening to him, Marty Rodríguez continued, the guard began hitting him.
The fact was corroborated by Borges Wilson, who added that after the beating Rodríguez Piloto was isolated in a punishment cell on the first floor of the increased area of building 1 by order of the building head, an officer identified as “Major Idael”.
As the protester added, from September 12 Rodríguez Piloto would have declared a hunger strike. This Tuesday, Martí News He informed that the political prisoner would be about to turn two weeks without eating food.
“He is on hunger strike, protesting the abuse, which does not give him medical assistance, for the abuse that the regime, the jailers and the security of the State against him committed,” the Cuban activist exiled in the United States José Díaz Silva told that environment.
The Pacific opponent, a political expreasing and human rights activist, is 57 years old, is apropist and resides in the cast El Palenque, in the capital municipality of La Lisa. He was imprisoned on July 11, 2021 while participating in the popular protests developed that day in his municipality and in numerous towns in the country.
He was subsequently sentenced to 10 years of deprivation of liberty for the crimes of “public disorders” and “contempt.”
During his confinement, Rodríguez Pilot has been the victim of arbitrary punishments and other multiple violations of his human rights and as a person deprived of liberty.
The opponent and activist appears registered in the Prisoners Defenders database, a non -governmental human rights defense organization based in Spain.
