The young political prisoner is on a hunger strike for 39 days inside the Lucía Iñiguez Landín Clinical Surgical Hospital in Holguín.
LIMA, Peru – The Cuban regime has stationed several State Security agents at the entrance to the Lucía Iñiguez Landín Clinical Surgical Hospital in Holguín, where political prisoner Yosvany Rosell Garcia Caso is hospitalized.
The images, shared by the independent media Diario de Cuba via Facebookshows the agents of the dictatorship guarding the health center, where García Caso completes 39 days of hunger strike this Sunday.
García Caso began the strike on October 23 to demand freedom for all political prisoners on the Island. Sentenced to 15 years in prison for his participation in the demonstrations of July 11, 2021, during his time in prison, he has resorted to hunger strikes as a method of protest on several occasions.
This last week, the Defense CD Complaints Center presented an urgent request for a precautionary measure of protection before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), warning that García Caso’s situation poses a real and imminent risk of death.
The United States Embassy in Cuba He also expressed concern about the serious state of health of the political prisoner. From the social network
“There is no justification for the mistreatment he suffers. He must be released and receive adequate medical care,” the publication reads.
For his part, US Congressman Mario Díaz-Balart he demanded last Monday to the Cuban regime the immediate release of the political prisoner.
Yosvany Health Update
“She is conscious, but very weak, her pale color and weight loss, her dark circles and deep eyes are notable,” is how Mailín Rodríguez Sánchez described her husband, the political prisoner Yosvany Rosell García Caso.
Rodríguez Sánchez was able to see him this Saturday in the intermediate therapy room of the Lucía Íñiguez Landín Clinical Surgical Hospital, in Holguina center to which he was transferred on November 19 from the Cubasí prison.
In statements to CubaNetthe wife of the 37-year-old young man explained that he continues to be reported in “critical condition with no prognosis” by doctors. Furthermore, he does not allow himself to be touched, he only allowed his blood pressure to be taken and it was very low, “something very dangerous in his condition”, he ingests little water and already has kidney failure.
Likewise, he commented that he remains guarded at all times by State Security officers and handcuffed to the bed. “A wife with a chain from one of her feet.”
“My God, how horrible, I came home shocked just thinking that, in addition to suffering from that strike, I also have to be tied up,” she said.
“I hold the Cuban government responsible for my husband’s life because thanks to them today he is unjustly imprisoned and in danger of his life, away from his family and his three children for more than four years, just for wanting a better future for them. He did not commit any crime because peacefully demonstrating is a constitutional right,” she stated.
