Rapper Maykel Castillo Osorbo he deposed the hunger and thirst strike that he had started some days ago in the Kilo Cinco y Medio prison, in Pinar del Río, where he has been since May 31. The curator reported it this Saturday on her Facebook page Anamely Ramos, a partner of Osorbo and a member, like him, of the San Isidro Movement (MSI).
“He is weak but well,” writes Ramos, who says that Osorbo himself called Eliécer Márquez The Funky to give you the news. “He wanted us to notify us soon so that people did not continue to worry. He knows they love him. That is his greatest pride,” says the curator.
The musician was arrested on May 18 and is accused of “attack”, “public disorder” and “evasion of prisoners or detainees” for some events that occurred on April 4, in a demonstration on Damas Street, headquarters of the protest group, when the police tried to arbitrarily detain him but he refused to get on the patrol.
“The bottom to which the Cuban regime falls every day is a bottom with no return, it is cruelty and shame, with no possibility of coming to light again.”
In her post, Anamely Ramos also mentioned the young man Andy Garcia Lorenzo, 23, imprisoned in Santa Clara, for whom the Prosecutor’s Office requested seven years in prison for demonstrating on July 11, and who was also on a hunger strike. “Yesterday I learned that Andy also left the strike and that he was sentenced to seven years immediately afterward,” says Ramos. “You have to be very vile to do something like that. I think of the judges, the prosecutor, how do they lend themselves to something like that?”
“A person on strike has hit bottom, but it is a bottom that comes out with many convictions,” continues the curator and art historian. “Somehow this being on the edge connects you with the most essential and even with your deepest personal history. However, the bottom to which the Cuban regime falls every day more, is a bottom with no return, it is that of cruelty and shame, no chance of coming out again. “
And he asserts, referring to the Cuban government: “You are leaving. It cannot be otherwise. Those who are imprisoned will leave. It cannot be otherwise.”
On October 26, the MSI expressed its “unconditional” support for the Archipelago group and its Civic March for Change of November 15, which the regime has described as “illegal” and that it tries to boycott by daily discrediting its organizers. in the official media.
Archipelago, for its part, does not stop its civic initiatives for that day. This Saturday, the platform called “the union of lawyers and legal professionals in Cuba” to get in touch with the group and help those who want to demonstrate on 15N.
“Our call is addressed to those who are willing to act by virtue of their profession, objectivity, justice, leaving aside political biases and prejudices”
“It is not necessary that they must be in accordance with the values promoted by the March or with the ideals of the promoters,” they specify in a statement released on networks. “Our call is addressed to those who are willing to act by virtue of their profession, objectivity, justice, leaving aside political biases and prejudices.”
They call for legal specialists because “many people who participated in the 11J protests have had to confront the authorities without legal representation or minimal advice” since “various violations of respect for due process in prisons or prison units The country’s police officers have gone unpunished for lack of legal assistance. “
“Due to the spontaneous nature of those demonstrations, there was no prior coordination or timely assistance, everything had to be done on the spot. As a consequence, some results were obtained soon, others are still on the way and a large part of their identity is still unknown”, explains the platform, which leaves their data (cell phone for WhatsApp and Telegram: +34 644 19 21 22 and email: [email protected]) for the lawyers to contact them.
In addition, on Friday Archipelago launched the page Cops, an open source tool created to “horizontalize decision-making in the group and provide feedback taking into account the voices of all Cubans,” where opinions of all kinds can be gathered.
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