MIAMI, United States.- After July 11, 2021 (J11), hundreds of families on the Island have been victims of the repressive policies of the Cuban regime. Among them is that of the Lady in White Sonia Álvarez Campillo, made up of her husband, the opposition leader Félix Navarro Rodríguez and her daughter, also an opposition member, Saylí Navarro Álvarez; both imprisoned since last March.
Since father and daughter were doomed, the harassment against Sonia Álvarez by State Security has increased. In interview with CubaNetSonia denounced that she has been fined eleven times with quotas of 150 pesos for allegedly violating the police cordon that they maintain in the vicinity of her home, located in Perico, Matanzas.
“They stop me every Sunday, they take me to the police and they fine me 150 pesos, because they stop one block from my house and when I go out, they come out behind me and stop me.”
Álvarez also warned that she could suffer the same fate as her husband and daughter, according to the threat made by the head of the Police Sector.
“On two occasions I have been issued warnings and on the last one the head of the Sector told me: ‘Now we are going to see what we are going to do with you,’ as if to say that they can also imprison me for going out on Sundays to ask for the freedom of my prisoners and of all the political prisoners of July 11”.
Likewise, the opposition member drew attention to the harassment suffered by Saylí by officer Ramón Pérez.
“He is in charge of visiting the prison where Saylí is located and harassing her, and calling the prisoners and telling them to seduce Saylí, that they are going to have a benefit. He is dedicated to that because Saylí has refused on several occasions to speak with him and it seems that because of that he has retaliated against Saylí.”
He also denounced that officer Noslen Pedroso, from the “Agüica” penitentiary center where Félix Navarro is kept, seized his personal diary and is in charge of repressing Félix and all the 9/11 protesters who are there.
Cuban political prisoner Félix Navarro, 68, was one of the 75 of the Black Spring of 2003. He is coordinator of the “Pedro Luis Boitel” Party for Democracy and promoter of the Cuba Decide campaign. He was accused of “attack and public disorder” and sentenced to nine years in prison. While in prison, he has twice been infected with COVID-19, in addition to suffering from diabetes and a lung injury.
His daughter Saylí, 36, a member of the Ladies in White and Cuba Decide, was sentenced to eight years and sent to the Bellotex women’s prison in Matanzas.
The two opponents were arrested the day after the massive protests of 11J, when they went to the police station in the Perico municipality to inquire about the fate of various protesters who were under arrest there. On April 18 of this year, at the end of the appeal trial, they were sent to jail; she chained her hands and feet, unable to say goodbye to her parents.
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