hospitalized and "very weak"one of the 'planted' dams of 11J in Cuba

hospitalized and "very weak"one of the ‘planted’ dams of 11J in Cuba

The political prisoner Lizandra Góngora Espinosa, sentenced to 14 years in prison for her participation in the protests of July 11, 2021, was transferred on Monday to the El Guatao women’s prison hospital, in the Havana municipality of La Lisa, a week after having declared a hunger strike.

Ángel Delgado, father of four of Góngora’s five children, confirmed to this newspaper that another unidentified inmate told him that Lizandra was taken to the hospital in a very weak state of health and with low blood pressure.

Góngora, along with the sisters María Cristina and Ángela Garrido, declared themselves on September 20 on hunger strike to demand their freedom, and the three refused to wear the uniform of common prisoners.

This Monday it was confirmed that the El Guatao prison allowed the relatives of the Garrido sisters to deliver food, although they were still “planted”. Meanwhile, Delgado said he did not know if Góngora had called off the hunger strike and believes that starvation was the cause of her transfer to the hospital.

Góngora was arrested for participating in the massive demonstrations on July 11 in Güira de Melena (Artemisa). the activist has explained that he joined a group of protesters who stood in front of an MLC store to claim donated food that they were selling to the population, who was injured in the leg there and fled the place. Faced with this version, the Government accuses her of having led the concentration.

This Monday it was confirmed that the El Guatao prison allowed the relatives of the Garrido sisters to deliver food, although they were still “planted”

Several activists who participated in the 11J demonstrations are imprisoned under the crime of sedition, one of the most severe figures of the Penal Code.

Also immersed in a hunger strike, since last September 13, is the professor of Physics Pedro Albert Sánchez, for whom the Spanish Liberal MEP Soraya Rodríguez raised her voice.

“We want to appeal to the Cuban government to ask for his immediate release. His health is in the hands of the Cuban state,” said the legislator. Rodriguez, in a message sent to the Cuban Observatory of Human Rights and published on social networks, insisted that the professor’s life is in danger and urged the European Union to intercede for him before the regime.

Sánchez, sick with cancer, was transferred on September 20 to the Enrique Cabrera Cossío General Hospital (National) as his health condition worsened. The professor has been in prison since November 3, 2021 and is awaiting trial for announcing a walk in solidarity with the Civic March of November 15 last year.

This Wednesday the death, also on a hunger strike, of a common prisoner in Sancti Spíritus was confirmed. Andy Reyes had refused to eat food almost two months ago, according to activist Néstor Estévez. The young man, imprisoned on several occasions, the latter for robbery with violence, spent 16 days in the Camilo Cienfuegos General Provincial Hospital, where he died.

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