Danisbel Labrada Morales was taken “with violence” from his cell by “Black Berets”, who did not allow him to collect his belongings.
HAVANA, Cuba. – The inmate Danisbel Labrada Morales was transferred from the Ariza Provincial Prison, in Cienfuegos, to the Canaleta prison, in the province of Ciego de Ávilaaccording to what he himself reported in a telephone conversation with CubaNet this Monday, December 22.
According to the prisoner, the transfer occurred last Thursday and would be a retaliation for his constant complaints about the conditions of captivity and the multiple violations of human rights committed by the uniformed men in the Cienfuegos penitentiary center.
Previously, Labrada Morales has denounced that prisoners are forcibly handcuffed to shave their heads. On this occasion, he added that they do not provide them with medical care and that they receive little food, which would have caused an epidemic of malnutrition in almost the entire prison population.
Regarding the circumstances of his transfer, Danisbel Labrada Morales explained that he was taken from his cell in the early morning hours by members of the Special Troops (known as “Black Berets”), who in addition to using violence did not allow him to collect his belongings, namely shoes, blanket, sheets and towel.
Likewise, he pointed out that, since his arrival at the Avilanian penitentiary center, also of maximum rigor, they have made him sleep on the floor, without a mattress or sheets. In this sense, he added that when demanding the provisions to which he is entitled as a person deprived of liberty, the blunt response of the second head of the prison facility, a captain named Jimyn Caballero Rodríguez, was the warning that in Canaleta complaints on social networks are not allowed under any circumstances and the threat of locking him in a walled cell if he disobeyed.
In this regard, Labrada Morales noted that in these cells the prisoners are kept “without clothes and receiving torture and beatings.”
Before concluding, the prisoner addressed “national and international public opinion, human rights activists, all men and women who fight for freedom and all democratic rulers of the planet” to denounce the multiple violations of which Cuban prisoners are victims. Firstly, he highlighted, the regime “harasses them using the most cowardly instruments to break them, such as hunger and humiliation.”
Danisbel Labrada Morales, 41 years old, is a farmer residing in the municipality of Cumanayagua, belonging to the Cienfuegos province. He has been imprisoned since January 3, 2016 and is serving a joint sentence of 14 years in prison for the crimes of theft and slaughter of livestock, disobedience and resistance.
