Miami, United States. – The Cuban Democratic Directory (DDC) denounced this Thursday The death of the Yoleisy Oviedo Rodríguez political dam In the Women’s Prison, known as El Guatao, in Havana, because of medical negligence and subhuman conditions in Cuban prisons. The organization held the Cuban regime and described the fact as a “crime against humanity.”
“We denounce the lack of medical care and the infrahuman conditions suffered by prisoners in Cuba, as a systematic, murderous and repressive policy of the dictatorship and its prison system, so we blame it for the death of the political prey,” said the DDC In a statement sent to Cubanet.
Oviedo Rodríguez, mother of two children, was 42 years old and served a five -year prison sentence for having participated in a protest against electric blackouts in Güines, Mayabeque, on October 10, 2022. He was arrested after the demonstration and sentenced in November 2023.
The political activist and expricer Alejandro Garlobo, along with other human rights defenders, have confirmed that Oviedo Rodríguez suffered several diseases and that he never received medical attention in prison. “His son went to look for her quickly and someone from the prison told him that they would deliver it at 7:00 at night,” Garlobo published on his social networks.
The Cuban democratic directory announced that it will present the case of Yoleisy Oviedo Rodríguez before the International Commission “Justice Cuba” and demanded the international conviction of the regime’s repressive policy. “We denounce before the world, to the dictatorship of Cuba as a whole as the only guilty, for the death of Yoleisy Oviedo Rodríguez and that of all those who have preceded it,” said the DDC.
The death of Oviedo Rodríguez occurs in an alarming context of deaths in Cuban prisons. According to the Cubalex Legal Information Center, at least three inmates have died in the Bonato prison: Hugo Sarmiento Socarrás, reported as suicide by hanging on February 10; Giovanis Ortega and Irai Nietowho died on February 1 and 2 respectively, allegedly due to extreme malnutrition and abandonment. In addition, on January 30, Yankiel Justiz Despaigne36 years old, died of tuberculosis in southern hair prison without receiving timely medical treatment.
“The Cuban State is responsible for the life and integrity of people under their custody. These deaths reflect the systematic negligence of the regime and extreme precariousness within the prison, ”said Cubalex in a statement.
Inhuman detention conditions further aggravate the health of people deprived of liberty. Factors such as overcrowding, unhealthiness, malnutrition and scarcity of drinking water facilitate the spread of diseases and deteriorate the health of inmates. The lack of hygiene, adequate ventilation and sufficient food are also recurring problems in Cuban prisons.
Organizations like JUSTICE 11J They have also denounced the death of at least four inmates convicted of the protests of July 11, 2021 while they fulfilled their sorrows: Luis Barrios, Yosandri Mulet, Giraldo Díaz and Manuel de Jesús Guillén. These deaths are attributable to the Cuban regime, either by direct commission or negligence and abandonment in the fulfillment of their obligations to safeguard the life of inmates.
