The transfer to the hospital constituted a complaint from his wife since, last week, she saw him very weak when she visited him in the CubaSí prison in Holguín.
HAVANA–The political prisoner Yosvani Rosell García Caso He was transferred this Wednesday to the “Lucía ĺñiguez Landín” Clinical Surgical Hospital in Holguín, his wife, Mailín Rodríguez Sánchez, informed CubaNet by telephone.
García Caso celebrates 29 days on hunger strike this Thursday. His wife explained that she started this form of protest “because of the unjust confinement of the political prisoners, who have been imprisoned for more than four years and nothing happens.”
“I ask you to continue in a chain of prayers for this father. He has not left his position, he remains planted; his state of health has not yet been confirmed to me,” he added.
The transfer to the hospital constituted a complaint from his wife since, last week, she saw him very weak when she visited him in the CubaSí prison in Holguín. “He was in a wheelchair because he couldn’t stand up,” he described.
Rodríguez Sánchez has not been able to see him since then and fears for his survival: “The anguish is desperate, we need him alive. He is our joy, the one that was stolen from us four years ago. He is innocent and the world knows it,” he said.
Likewise, García’s wife says that for several days she has requested religious assistance for the 11J protester, but this has not yet been approved. “A life is at stake, and time is ticking,” she said desperately.
Yosvani 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 Holguín. 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 attention in retaliation for his frontal opposition to the dictatorship that prevails on the Island.
This Monday, the United States Embassy In Havana he condemned the “abuses and mistreatment” suffered by political prisoners in Cuban prisons, in a message published in X in response to an alert issued days ago by the Cuban Prison Documentation Center (CDPC).
In its public statement, the diplomatic headquarters described García Caso’s situation as “alarming.” According to the message, the prisoner’s hunger strike constitutes a complaint against “the constant abuses” within the prison system. The Embassy added that it joins the demands for the release of all people imprisoned for political reasons.
