MIAMI, United States.- Luis Rodríguez Pérez, husband of political prisoner Angélica Garrido, spoke this afternoon with CubaNet and recounted the situation experienced by the protester on July 11, 2021 in Quivicán and her sister, María Cristina Garrido, both held in prison. Guatao women’s prison.
The Garrido and Lisandra Góngora sisters announced last week that they were planted in prison, among other reasons because they did not agree with wearing the uniform of common prisoners. The three women, Luis Rodríguez told CubaNet, were on a hunger strike for five days, however, the prison authorities separated them to try to weaken their demands.
Added to the health situation that Angélica Garrido is currently facing due to the recent hunger strike is a facial paralysis caused by the stress to which she has been subjected since the historic demonstrations last year.
“Angélica had been suffering from psychological harassment, with the aim of destabilizing her, depressing her, and that is one of the factors that caused her facial paralysis,” said her husband, who also denounced during the visit on Monday that they did not allow him to see her.
Luis Rodríguez explained that he had to take a bag of food over the fence and deliver it to an officer who promised to deliver it to Angélica. “Sometimes those who take care of them in prison are worse than the prisoners themselves,” he lamented.
Angélica’s husband assured CubaNet that this was collateral damage, since before July 11, 2021, María Cristina was already a benchmark for activism in Quivicán. The objective of her regimen was to catch her from her, and whoever was with her the day she was taken from her would go to jail too, he said.
“A they have not been proven anything elseand the crimes for which they were sentenced to jail only had the officers inside the police car as witnesses,” said Luis Rodríguez.
The Cuban regime accuses the sisters of an attack, supposedly due to an incident that occurred inside a police car after arresting them in the middle of the street on July 12.
“Supposedly they kicked the driver, who was the chief of police, however, she later recounted, and there is also the statement of a doctor who saw her, that her fingers were broken by an officer inside the car”, no there is nothing else, because the July 11 march was totally peaceful, he asserted.
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