MIAMI.-The Cubanet collaborator and political prisoner Angel Cuza Alfonso He has reported that he has been isolated for almost 30 days in a punishment cell inside the Combinado del Este prison, in Havana.
As stated in a phone call to activist Pedro Quiala, the cell lacks light, does not have a television and water is only obtained through a small tube.
“Here they torture you, they beat you, they do everything to you,” the reporter said by telephone.
Likewise, Cuza maintained that he would not remain silent in the face of injustices against him or other political prisoners. The isolation was imposed in October in retaliation for his solidarity with another political prisoner, Duannis León Taboada, who had carried out peaceful protests inside the prison.
The independent reporter was sentenced on November 7, 2023 to one year and six months in prison for the alleged crime of disturbing public order.
Cuza was tried in the Popular Municipal Court of Central Havana along with Lázaro Rolando Kessel Barrueto and Yasser Rivero Bonni, who also faced charges of an altercation It happened in December of last year in a crowd to buy food.
In March 2024, Cuza Alfonso reported that the prison authorities have denied him without explanation the change to a minimum security regime.
The Cuban activist was one of the participants in the protest on April 30, 2021 on Obispo Street (Old Havana) in favor of the political prisoner Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, which is why he served several months in prison. He was released at the beginning of January 2022.
Throughout 2023, Cuza continued reporting regularly for CubaNethence was chasedharassed and detained on several occasions by the political police. The activist was subject to ten arbitrary arrests and eight surveillance operations.
