Garrido, convicted of demonstrating 11J, has been harassed for months by a common inmate that acts under state security orders.
Madrid, Spain.- The Cuban political dam María Cristina Garrido Rodríguez, sentenced to seven years of deprivation of liberty for participating in the protests of July 11, 2021 (11J), was recently submitted to an episode of psychological torture in the Women’s Prison of El Guatao, in Havana. This was denounced by his sister, Angélica Garrido, also expresses policy, in statements offered to Diary of Cuba.
According to the testimony, María Cristina He has been harassed for several months by a common inmate identified as Imirsy Caballero, instigated by the prison controls and state security.
“He has been under the threats and harassment of a common inmate called imirsy gentleman who does the dirty work to the security of the State (…) mocks it, stigmatizes it from the political point of view, when my sister is looking at the national news of television, accuses her of Mercenaria and who is a soldier of Donald Trump, pursues her, offends her in her ideological beliefs. Violent of María Cristina that could carry a new cause and more years in jail, ” denounced Angelica Garrido, currently exiled.
According to his sister and the activist Magdelivia Hidalgo, member of the Latin American Federation of Rural Women (Flamur), the common dam launches constant verbal attacks against María Cristina, who has denounced the facts without receiving a response from the prison authorities. “He makes life a hell,” said Hidalgo, who also identified the aggressor as “a puppet of state security.”
The accumulated tension ended up causing a desperate reaction by the political prisoner. “All the garnish appeared at the galley and took her to the prison address and put a report, which cares very little,” said Hidalgo. According to his story, the officer in charge of supervising her – a colonel – appeared to directly intimidate her. “In short, everything is a montage. Mari knows, but everything has a limit and she exploded.”
Although the family fears that the regime intends to viralize the case as a strategy to sow fear, Angélica Garrido plans to formalize the complaint before national and international instances.
María Cristina Garrido was arrested on July 12, 2021 in Quivicán, Mayabeque Province, and was 18 days incommunicado. In March 2022 he was convicted of the crimes of “public disorders”, “aggression”, “instigation to commit crimes”, “contempt” and “resistance.” She is the executive director of the opposition Republican Party of Cuba and one of the many women imprisoned after the protests of the 11J, who shook more than 50 locations on the island.
Organizations such as Pen Internacional have denounced that it has been the victim of “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, such as isolation and beating”, in addition to deprivation of food, water and sanitary conditions, as well as arbitrary restrictions on visits and family calls.
