HAVANA, Cuba. – After 15 days confined, political prisoner Roberto Pérez Fonseca, sentenced to 10 years of deprivation of liberty for his participation in the anti-government demonstrations of July 11 and 12, 2021 (11J), left the punishment cell where he was held. since the end of November.
According to his mother, Liset Fonseca, the young inmate was kept in “a torture cell,” walled up, cold, dark and without windows.
“[Roberto] He says that he was very cold because in the morning they took everything away from him, they only left him with shorts and a sleeveless t-shirt; that he could scream and no one listened to him and that he went four days without eating,” said the political prisoner’s mother.
Liset Fonseca also said that the cell where her son was kept was “very humid, with mold on the walls, and so dark that the guards had to use flashlights to enter.”
At the beginning of December was informed that Pérez Fonseca remained in a punishment cell and incommunicado in the Quivicán prison, province of Mayabeque.
“On Thursday [28 de noviembre] They had him handcuffed from 10:30 in the morning until 7:00 at night until they took him to that place. They didn’t give him any more food until Friday when a guard came and let him go make himself a glass of milk, since he doesn’t eat anything from there, but then the head of the prison arrived and took the glass of milk from him and gave him He said that whoever was in that cell could not leave any of his things,” Liset said.
Likewise, he reported that in the 15 days in which he was confined, Roberto had to be taken five times (at night) to receive aerosol at the medical station (on two occasions he had to be injected due to the asthma he suffers from). The young man from San José de las Lajas also suffers from gastric ulcers.
Pérez Fonseca was sentenced three years ago for the alleged crimes of attack, contempt, instigation to commit a crime and public disorder.
