García Caso, 37 years old, is serving a 15-year prison sentence after being accused of “sedition” for participating in the July 11 demonstrations.
HAVANA.-“I am heartbroken to see him in these conditions, he is very thin, with his skin stuck to his bones,” Mailín Rodríguez Sánchez, wife of the prisoner of conscience, declared to Cubanet by telephone. Yosvani Rosell García Casowho this Tuesday celebrates thirteen days on hunger strike.
García Caso is being held in the Canasí prison, Holguín province. His wife explained that she began the hunger strike “in protest of the unjust confinement of the political prisoners, who have been imprisoned for more than 4 years and nothing is happening.”
“Yesterday I was able to see him after spending three days trying to call the repressors; he has lost a lot of weight and maintains his position of continuing on a hunger strike. I am desperate,” she said.
Rodríguez Sánchez says that the visit was recorded and in the presence of about nine soldiers. Upon seeing her, her husband asked her to leave “because he was not going to abandon the strike,” she explained, alleging that she does not agree with his decision.
“I need international support, for someone to take some measure. I don’t know if they beat him because he was dressed and I was barely able to see him for five minutes. Until when will the relatives of political prisoners have to go through so much anguish and pain!”, he concluded.
García Caso, 37 years old, is serving a 15-year prison sentence after being accused of “sedition” for participating in the demonstrations on July 11, 2021 (11J) in Holguin. His sentence was among the highest among the more than a thousand prosecuted for 9/11 in the country. For more than four years, he has been beaten in prison, sent to punishment cells, threatened with death and denied medical care in retaliation for his frontal opposition to the dictatorship that prevails on the Island.
In one letter sent from prison to his wife – and addressed to President Miguel Díaz-Canel – in February 2022, he conveyed that “that blessed” 11J demonstrated that “we Cubans want change” and the end of communism because the Communist Party “is the cause of all our evils.”
In 2024, a request for a Precautionary Measure in favor of the political prisoner was presented to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. This organization notified the Cuban State to present its observations, however, to date, it has not responded.
