The repressors also threatened to accuse him and “let him pour” in prison if he dared to report them.
Havana, Cuba. – Granmense opponent and activist Alexander Guzmán Silva received a strong beating from uniforms of the Las Mangas Provincial Prison, according to him he denounced by telephone this Thursday.
Guzmán Silva has been a prisoner since May 23 of this year. Was arrested by the delegate of the Interior Ministry (Minint) as retaliation for participating in a peaceful protest that took place that day in the city of Bayamo, where it resides.
The activist pointed out that the protest departed from the cast for the union towards the roundabout located on 26 de Julio Street, between Vicente Quesada and José Antonio Echeverría. Along the way and when they arrived at the scene, more people were added. In the same way, he pointed out that protesters claimed access to basic foods and services such as electricity, in addition to political changes.
Guzmán Silva continued to report how a few minutes later officials of the municipal government appeared accompanied by agents of the National Revolutionary Police (PNR). Among them was the minint delegate of the city of Bayamo, who pounced and grabbed him by an arm. Immediately some police handcuffed him and mounted him in a patrol car.
Initially they kept it captive at the Criminal Instruction Center located at the exit to Las Tunas, on the Central Highway. There they left him arrested for 28 days and subsequently transferred to the Maximum Rigor Penitentiary Center. As he said, they accuse him of the crime of “public disorders.”
The 25 -year -old activist is currently a director of Republican Youth Impact, Rama of the Republican Party of the Granma Province. At the time of being imprisoned, life was made as a signal a street vendor of bread and jams.
In relation to the reason for the recent beating, Guzmán Silva said that in the prison they had authorized him to visit him to take him toilet items. However, when these were already in the place the lieutenant who is in charge of allowing relatives to access the visits area ordered them to leave the prison installation and could not meet the activist.
Meanwhile, Guzmán Silva had asked a guard to take him with his family, but when he arrived at the local the officer, he let her know that she had made them leave the center. By expressing his discontent, said the political prisoner, the military began shouting homophobic epithets and other offenses.
A few minutes later, the young activist continued, the military went up with two or three officers to the cell, handcuffed him and she began to hit him. One of the military who accompanied her also punch her face and hit him against the wall and the lieutenant continued to hit him tightly down the face and chest with his fists, he said.
The repressor bore her hands “full of rings”, which enhanced the effect of blows. As a result of the aggression, some cuts and bruises left on the face and torso, and mainly strong chest pains, said the young man.
The repressors also threatened to accuse him and “let him be able” in prison if he dared to report them through their relatives or by some other means.
