Havana/The family of Félix Navarro He denounces not to know his state of health in prison. The opponent, imprisoned again in the Agüica prison, Matanzas, since probation was revoked last April, is sick and isolated.
According to a 14ymedio Activist Annia Zamora, family friend, was provided with a cycle of antibiotics, which has already ended, and “must continue to recover” from an infection. The problem, alert, is that they have it “in something they call nursing but it is not nursing.” In an area that is not that of older adults, as it would correspond to being 72 years old, without communication, without television, without being able to walk in the sun, the Blanco lady also cries out, “they have it isolated in that badly called nursing.”
Until the next visit, which does not know if it will be at the end of September or the beginning of October, because they have not yet given the family, they will not know exactly how it is. “The situation is very worrying right now,” Lammora laments.
On April 29, the Popular Supreme Court revoked the release of Navarro and José Daniel Ferrer – leader of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), claiming that “they breached what was established in the law during the trial period to which they were subject.” He also said that “they are people who publicly make calls, in their social and digital environments, disorder and contempt of the authorities and maintain public links with the business manager of the United States Embassy in Cuba.”
Navarro, who suffers from diabetes and other health problems, fulfilled a nine -year sanction for the crimes of public disorder, contempt and attack, after the protests of July 11, 2021, but had been released as part of an agreement between the Vatican and Havana. According to the Court, his arrest was justified by the contempt of the opponent when leaving his municipality without permission from the judge.
“Inside there are tuberculosis, there are bed bugs, scabies, all kinds of diseases”
On the other hand, the family of the musician and activist Fernando Almenares, known as Nando obdcHe denounces that the artist remains in the prison Cuba Panama, located in Güines, Mayabeque, for patients with HIV and AIDS, when he does not have this condition.
“There are tuberculosis inside, there are bed bugs, scabies, all kinds of diseases and I told Fernando not to be pricked for anyone because they could inoculate the virus,” said his mother, said Eva Riverato Martí News. The woman explained that the prison director reproached him for her son to refuse to receive the therapy they give to the rest of the prisoners. “A therapy that give patients those, who have their treatment, their medicine,” Rivera clarified, who said he had told the official: “Under my responsibility, I do not allow Fernando to click or take any kind of therapy, because Fernando does not have any disease.”
At the end of July, the rapper was on hunger, to protest to have incommunicado in prison.
Almenares He was arrested On December 31, 2024 in his home in the Havana municipality of La Lisa and was accused of “propaganda against the constitutional order”, supposed “subversive activities” and links with people who promote “terrorism against the Cuban state.”
In one of the visits that his mother made in prison, the case instructor told Rivera that they were processing his son for a related crime “with a fire that occurred in Lenin Park, on December 30,” but the family denies any implication of the artist in the fact.
For its part, the Prosecutor’s Office has not submitted provisional conclusions nor has any judgment against him been held, after more than seven months of imprisonment. Its arrest is qualified by organizations and family members as arbitrary and unfair.
In the statements published this Saturday Martí NewsEva Rivera said that the lawyer who is in charge of the young man’s defense presented a habeas corpusbut that he warned that there are delays in the courts “because there are no prosecutors.” The woman is concerned “a lot, a lot, much” that her son “will invent, because it is the right word”, an accusation against him, “because they manufacture any kind of evidence.”
For his activism as a member of the UNPACU, Verdecia Rodríguez had previously received five sanctions
Nor does another political prisoner have a trial date, Alexander Verdeciabeing imprisoned for seven months. His wife, Eliannis Villavicenciodenounced the situation also with Martí Newsand explained that her husband would manifest in the prison of the sleeves, in Bayamo (Granma) “every three or four days”, until her case is processed.
Just last June he received the tax petition: 10 years in prison accused of “propaganda against the constitutional order” and “instigation to commit crimes”, to publish on Facebook slogans against the regime.
One of the writings encouraged his fellow citizens to demonstrate peacefully. “The Castro Canel regime is committing genocide against the people of Cuba are annihilating it slowly hungry and misery, we must demand from social networks the resignation of Díaz-Canel and everyone.” And I asked for near May 1: “What touches is peacefully protesting your rights, for our rights, do not support the lie, hunger, misery and communism (…) use your right not to participate in this farce.”
For various crimes associated with its activism as a member of the UNPACU, Verdecia Rodríguez had previously received five sanctions (two in 2015, one in 2016, another in 2018 and another in 2019). Hence, the legal letter also confirms “criminal records.” All of them, his wife said to this newspaper, “have to do with politics.”
