This is the political prisoner Yoanny Thomas González, sentenced to life imprisonment for the kidnapping of the rule boat in 2003.
Havana, Cuba. – Guanajay prison authorities withdrew his memory flash To the political prisoner convicted of life imprisonment Yoanny Thomas González, according to him he denounced via telephone last Friday, August 8.
These memories, ”said the political prisoner himself – can contain musical videos, series, films and other entertainment materials that their relatives record them and are delivered by them to the military, who check them before leaving them in possession of the prisoners.
He also clarified that three months ago, a major from the prison had authorized that those sentenced to life imprisonment had that device to be able to see their content on the televisions in the cells; However, at the end of July, the director of the Penitentiary Center, Lieutenant Colonel Guillermo Cordero Monduy, made them withdraw without giving explanations.
Thomas González referred in the same way to other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment applied in that prison installation of maximum rigor against those condemned to life imprisonment, and that in general aggravate the suffering inherent in the deprivation of liberty.
For example, he mentioned that to take the sun they do not let them out outdoors, but that they are transferred from their dungeon to another roofless cell and there they leave them about an hour a day. In the same way, he stressed that every time an arbitrary change is implemented in the regulations, the first affected are those sentenced to life imprisonment.
The prisoner emphasized that despite being fulfilling a conviction like that, they have, or should have, the same rights as the rest of the inmates. These rights include, but are not limited to: access to recreation, access to study, access to physical exercise and sports practice, the right to communications, among others. However, he regretted, in the Guanajay prison this is not fulfilled, because they never include them in collective activities.
Yoanny Thomas González has been imprisoned since April 2003. He was sentenced to life imprisonment after having participated in The kidnapping of the Baraguá passenger boat (the rule boat) In that year, and that resulted in life imprisonment for three other participants (Maikel Delgado Aramburu, Harold Alcalá Aramburu and Ramón Henry Grillo), 30 years in prison for Wilmer Ledea Pérez, five years for Ana Rosa Ledea Ríos, three years for Yolanda Pozo Pozo, two years for Dania Rojas Góngora, and the penalty Copello Castillo, Barbaro Leodán Sevilla García and Jorge Luis Martínez Isaac.
