MIAMI, United States. — Ariel Ruiz Urquiola celebrated this Sunday seven days on a hunger and thirst strike in front of the Palais Wilson in Geneva (Switzerland), where the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is based.
The scientist, who demands from that organization a forceful pronouncement against the decision of the Cuban regime to deny entry to the Island to his sister, Omara Ruiz Urquiola, offered brief statements about your health status.
“I am not in full physical condition, but what I can assure you is that, in my mind, I am still a person not only strong, but also focused on my convictions, on my ideas of struggle, and I will be here until my body resists. in this conflict between the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the strength that an individual can show,” said Ruiz Urquiola.
In addition to staying a week without food or water, the activist also removed the medications from his HIV treatment, which was diagnosed almost three years ago.
The biologist also said that Cubans must have a lot of strength to continue fighting to win a true democracy on the island.
“We need a lot of strength, a lot of courage, to win this independence. I await the last fight that we all have to fight, some in Cuba, others in the capitals of the world, for true independence.”
Finally, Ruiz Urquiola assured that Cubans must fight for their freedom, because “without freedom there is no life.”
“The most precious asset that man has is freedom, without freedom there is no life. Having life and being a slave you are nothing more than an object. Freedom or liberation for all of us”, said the scientist.
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