CDMX, Mexico. –Saily Nunezwife of political prisoner Maykel Puig denounced that the Güines police summoned her for questioning tomorrow, November 28, at the municipal station. Núñez held the Cuban authorities responsible for any harm suffered by her or her family.
“His intention is probably to threaten me again so that I will shut up and not demand my husband’s release,” she told Cubanet Saily, who was given no other option by the Cuban government than to publicly dissent and defend her family.
In just over a year, she has been cited and threatened so many times that the 34-year-old activist has lost count. She was also arrested at the beginning of August when together with other relatives of the political prisoners he tried to reach the Cathedral of Havanaa.
Recently, the attacks on her began to affect people close to her. Her sister Daily Batista Pérez, 18, was arrested on November 6 and spent 72 hours in a cell for peacefully demonstrating against the blackouts. That event was used by State Security to try to subdue Saiy. But her answer is the same: “I am not doing anything reprehensible. I just want my family together and I’m not going to leave my husband alone. My children need their father.”
“Maykelito is being treated by a child psychiatrist because he suffers from depression. My 10-year-old boy’s hair is falling out and he has had skin lesions from nerves.” The boy began to present all these symptoms after his father was arrested. To this we must add that he lives scared that Saily will be arrested. “Every time the police come to summon me or harass me, he gets upset.”
Saily assures that the agony that his family is experiencing has only one person responsible: the Cuban government.
Before and after 9/11
The life of Saily, mother of two children and a graduate in Microbiology, changed completely when State Security arrested her husband Maykel Puig for having participated in the demonstrations in their municipality on July 11, 2021.
After a trial where the only evidence against Puig was the statements of two officers who contradicted each other and provided no evidence, Maykel was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Two others were later added to that sentence for allegedly threatening the head of the Quivicán prison.
For himThe stay in jail has been a true hell. In Quivicán they kept him isolated for three months in a cell that measures less than two square meters. It was a dark hole where he couldn’t walk or stretch his body. Then they moved him 150 kilometers from his house as a punishment so his family would see him less often. The latest threat from State Security is to take him to Guantanamo.
His physical and emotional health condition has deteriorated due to the poor diet and subhuman prison conditions. He is also hypertensive and was diagnosed as a diabetic in jail.
From the outside, his wife has not left him alone. Núñez has been one of the strongest voices, denouncing the arbitrariness against political prisoners.
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