Havana/For the seventh time, the authorities of the La Bellotex prison, in Matanzas, have denied Sissi Abascal the penitentiary benefits that correspond to it. An officer communicated it last Monday in the nursing, where the political dam has been for more than two weeks, after undergoing emergency surgery.
According to a 14ymedio His mother, Annia Zamora, is the seventh time that they deny her daughter to pass her to a “less severe regime.” In it, it would be “in another wing of the prison, where the inmates are in civil clothing, they take them to work and once every 30 days they give them a pass.”
The reason for not granting the change in measure is to consider it “the negative dam.” All this, Apostille, with the complicity of the security of the State and the Court itself, which sentenced it to six years in prison for participating in the peaceful protests of July 11, 2021 in the Matancera town of Jovellanos.
“Sissi does not participate in any political activity in prison, he will not work, because he knows that these are forced labor”
“Sissi does not participate in any political activity in prison, he will not work, because he knows that these are forced labor, which force prisoners to work and should not be so,” says his mother. “She is a dam with values, with her very firm ideals, and she will not do any of that.”
Just Monday that the agent informed Abascal that he was left without the corresponding benefits, the organization Prisoners Defenders He published a report that reveals that at least 60,000 people deprived of liberty in Cuba are subject to forced labor, a practice that they consider “normalized and institutionalized” that also provides economic benefit to the State.
The text was exposed in the situation of women’s dams, which denounced that they are forced to do physically inappropriate work, without hygiene or protection, even being pregnant or suffering from serious diseases. And, in the same way, it accredited situations such as those of Sissi Abascal: to the prisoners of consciousness that refuse to work, they are withdrawn the exits, the visits and other penitentiary benefits.
“If in Cuba the law worked as it has to work, our political prisoners would not be in prison,” says Annia Zamora. “You have the right to express yourself, to express yourself, to say what you feel, and that is why they are in prison. Almost all political prisoners deny those benefits, and it is painful.”
As for the state of health of Abascal, his mother says that “he is recovering well” and that he found her better the last time he saw her. And he concludes, resigned: “She is very firm in her ideas. She is convinced that she entered for six years and that she will have to turn six.”
The young opponent, a member of the Blanco ladies, was intervened on an emergency on August 28 For a bartolinitis at the Maternity Provincial Hospital of Matanzas, without notice to his family. His mother then told this newspaper that “for some time now he had problems with that ailment, as with a cyst in an ovary.”
After a few days hospitalized to prevent bleeding and other complications, she was transferred to the prison nursing, where she must be “a month of great rest,” says Zamora, “until in October he has consultation again and the doctor decides if he can leave the infirmary or not.”
