As a preventive measure, the prison authorities decided to suspend the next visit, scheduled for Monday, November 3.
HAVANA, Cuba. – The La Pendiente provisional prison, in Santa Clara, is affected by an outbreak of hepatitis, as reported by telephone this Wednesday, October 29, the activist and political prisoner Alexander Peraza García.
The inmate also pointed out that as a preventive measure, the prison authorities decided to suspend the next visit, which was scheduled for Monday, November 3. Likewise, he highlighted that the measure was guided and announced personally by the director of the prison, Major Yuriolbis Espí.
Peraza García indicated that of a total of 10 detachments, only in his, number 5, no cases of the disease have been detected. However, he regretted, these 75 inmates were not excluded from the suspension of visits, even though they are healthy. For this reason, all of them threatened to go on hunger strike if the measure was not modified.
According to the activist, the prisoners do not know what type of hepatitis it is, since they have not been informed about it.
Hepatitis can have several causes, including infectious (viral or bacterial). Its most frequent modes of transmission are, among others, the fecal-oral route (through contact with the feces of another patient or through contaminated food such as insufficiently washed vegetables) and parenterally (through transfusions, wounds or contaminated syringes). To prevent it, it is essential to maintain adequate hygiene, especially when preparing food and in commonly used utensils.
Alexander Peraza García, 29 years old, is a resident of the municipality Sagua the Greatin the Villa Clara province. He has been in prison since December 23, 2024. According to him, he faces a prosecutor’s request for 10 years of deprivation of liberty for the alleged crime of “propaganda against the constitutional order” in retaliation for disclosing on his social networks some articles of the 1940 Constitution, as well as various news about the situation in his municipality of residence.
The activist was detained at his home after an exhaustive search by State Security agents, who confiscated materials related to that historical document, whose democratic principles Peraza García is a promoter.
For this and other civic initiatives – such as organizing peaceful protests against the frequent and prolonged blackouts that have affected hundreds of thousands of Cubans for so many months – on several occasions he has been a victim of state repression.
