SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico-. Cuban prisoners denounced this Tuesday the abuses committed by the head of the Guamajal women’s prison, in Villa Clara, against the young woman. Lisdiani Rodríguez Isaac, sentenced to eight years in prison for the alleged crimes of contempt, disobedience and attack for her participation in the protests of July 11, 2021, in the municipality of Placetas.
In separate audios sent to CubaNetLisdiani’s sister, Lisdani Rodríguez Isaac, and her mother, said that the prison repressors have beaten and abused the young woman, according to information confirmed to Rodríguez’s family by prisoners from Guamajal.
According to the testimonies, Major Alberiche, head of the internal organ of Villa Clara, entered alone, without female accompaniment, to the cubicle where Lisdiani was lying, thus violating prison regulations.
Albertiche, after taking a tour with Major Marlén de la Rosa, returned to the detachment, approached Lisdiani’s bed, uncovered it and lifted it up. Then he ordered him to stand at attention in front of him.
The repressor threatened to lock her in a punishment cell but Lisdiani replied that he should drag her away. Later, he took her to an office where the prison repressors beat her.
They covered Lisdiani’s mouth while they attacked her so that she could not scream, a prisoner told the family by telephone. The incident left her with visible bruises on her body, which is why the authorities denied her the corresponding pass, so that her family cannot see her with the marks of the blows.
The prisoners, according to Lisdiani’s family, protested against the abuse and shouted anti-government slogans.
“I am worried because I see what is happening to my sister’s life,” said Lisdani, who fears these acts of abuse against Lisdiani.
The Rodríguez Isaac sisters
The sisters have been victims of systematic abuse in the Guamajal prison. “Both my sister and I are innocent, we are only imprisoned for thinking differently, for asserting our rights,” she declared exclusively for CubaNet the political prisoner Lisdani Rodríguez.
The 25-year-old girl and her sister, Lisdiani (triplets but only two are in prison), are serving an eight-year prison sentence after their participation in the protests of July 11, 2021 (11J) in their hometown, Placetas. .
“Life in prison is bad and very hard, and even more so when you are a political prisoner, who is unjustly detained. There are no conditions, there is no water, the food is horrible. All the time they are forcing you to adopt a ‘firm’ position, they mistreat you, State Security is always there, threatening,” he explained.
“They told me that they were going to get rid of my mother like they got rid of me and my sister. “They are capable of inventing anything in order to bring you down, just for thinking differently, for having gone out to a demonstration that, by right, belongs to us,” he added.
Rodríguez Isaac was imprisoned in the Guamajal women’s prison, located in Santa Clara; At the end of May he received extra-penal license for a period of one year for having a pregnancy at risk.
Since the 22nd week of gestation, the young woman had been diagnosed with low anterior placenta (or previa), which increases the risk for her pregnancy and the possibility of premature birth of her baby, if the necessary precautions are not taken.
In the prison, he had a very poor diet and had very poor conditions, he only received main course three times a week and did not have the necessary diet for a pregnant woman, as she reported to CubaNet his mother.
