Havana.-The political prisoner Manuel de Jesús Rodríguez García He was beaten in the Pinareña prison known as kilo 5 ½ on Saturday, February 8, his mother Nilda García Fleitas denounced by telephone on the 14th of the month.
García Fleitas explained to Cubanet that on February 8 he went to the penitentiary center to participate with his son and grandson in the child activity scheduled monthly. As he said, when he reached the installation, he gave the sack with the food, as established, in the place where they are kept and then handed them to the prisoners.
The woman also indicated that during the visit she could perceive a great disgust in the inmates due to the lack of water and electricity in the penitentiary center. As he said, the discomfort for those and another series of problems that affect the criminal population caused a strong discussion between the inmates and the head of area two, an officer who identifies as Captain Norm, and who according to García Fleitas usually mistreat the Prisoners
The mother of Manuel de Jesús Rodríguez García, also reported that after the relatives leave, the political prisoner held another discussion with the uniformed, since they had given her the vituals bag with all the destroyed content. Before Rodríguez García’s protests, the repressors’ response was to hit him handcuffed and lock him up in punishment. “They also manufactured a false contempt crime,” Nilda added.
The above was corroborated by telephone by the also political prisoner Yasser Fernando Rodríguez Gonzálezwho mentioned among the repressors who hit Rodríguez García to Captain Irisnay Pérez Gavilán. Manuel de Jesús Rodríguez declared a hunger strike since the day of the events in protest of the abuse.
Nilda García Fleitas listed part of the content of the package, which included some boxes of cigarettes, razor machines, pizzas and other food. In the same way, he referred to the fact that when he met with the officials of kilo 5 ½ on the occasion of his son’s hunger strike, the director of the provincial prison Pinareña, Major Eliecer Díaz Rodríguez, tried to make him sign a document that assured that The belongings had been destroyed by the inmate himself. Being false, she refused.
Manuel de Jesús Rodríguez García, 35 years old, is a natural peasant of the Municipality of the South Consolation, in the Pinar del Río province. He has been imprisoned since August 3, 2016. He was sentenced to eight years of deprivation of liberty for the false crimes of attack, contempt, alteration of the order, defamation of the heroes and martyrs and sexual outrage.
These criminal figures were applied in retaliation for their activism as a member of the Pinareña Democratic Alliance Opposition Movement, directed by the political express of the Group of 75 Eduardo Díaz Fleitas.
