SLP, Mexico.- The Cuban Observatory for Human Rights in Cuba (OCDH) denounced in a statement issued this Monday, January 13, that a 73-year-old Cuban prisoner died this weekend after suffering a beating at the hands of a repressorin the Kilo 8 prison, located in Camagüey.
The note of the OCDH reports that Ulises Rodríguez Machado, a resident of the Simoni neighborhood, was attacked by Daniel Primelles, an internal order officer.
From sources prison Directly, the organization learned that when the elderly man’s condition was critical, he was transferred to another place to receive medical attention, although the destination has not been specified.
They also pointed out that the director of the prison, Juan Miguel Sánchez Duarte, had tried to hide the incident and the circumstances of the incident. death.
The Cuban Observatory for Human Rights recalled that the repressor accused of the beating and subsequent death of Rodríguez Machado has also been denounced on previous occasions for his involvement in episodes of extreme violence.
Years ago, the organization also shared a article written by its director, Alejandro González Fraga, a political prisoner of the so-called Black Spring in the Kilo 7 prison, in Camagüey, where Primelles was the protagonist of abuses.
In González Fraga’s story, the case of inmate Roberto Esquivel González is exposed, who was subjected to a beating with metal bars and batons that almost caused his death. On that occasion, the repressor Primelles would have been the main aggressor after receiving orders from another officer: “Kill him, Primelles, he cut me.”
“The actions of officers like Daniel Primelles reflect not only acts of personal abuse, but a pattern of impunity and institutional complicity that allows these atrocities to occur behind the walls of Cuban prisons,” declared the OCDH.
The Kilo 8 prison has been identified as a prison where abuse and torture are systematic.
The Coordinator of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), José Daniel Ferrer, related that once, locked up there, he saw how more than thirty guards they killed beatings, with metal bars, tonfas and bats, to two common inmates from Cienfuegos.
Omar Rodríguez Saludes, former political prisoner, also attested to the dire conditions that have always existed in the prison.
According to the testimony of Rodríguez Saludes, in Kilo 8 there are about 150 punishment cells, 50 considered “extreme” because they are smaller and only have one mat.
