The Ladies in White and political prisoners Sissi Abascal, Tania Echevarría andSaylí Navarro They have been without drinking water and 50% less food in La Bellotex prison in Matanzas for more than a week.
“In La Bellotex prison, until Saturday, when I spoke with Sissi, there was no water; "It has been more than a week that the political prisoners Saylí Navarro, Tania Echevarría Méndez and Sissi Abascal are carrying water,"denouncedthe activist Annia Zamora, Abascal's mother, in statements collected byRadio Television Martí.
Likewise, Zamora denounced that Abascal, who is sick, and her companions also had their prison food cut in half.
“Our prisoners should not be in that place, and even more so, facing that situation: the food was reduced to 50 percent, and now without water too. They have to go down from the third floor to carry water with some buckets. Imagine, up the stairs with those cubes!” he lamented.
“Also, up there they can only have two buckets. So, they need water for bathing, for washing, for cleaning, and they have nothing. They have to carry it from the first floor to the third floor, up the stairs,” he added.
This is not the first time that the imprisoned Ladies in White have faced this situation. Mother Abascal claimed that her daughter slipped while carrying water and had an infected wound on her leg when the prison previously ran out of water.
Zamora will take advantage of the prison visit next Wednesday to “request an interview (with the prison leadership) to see what explanation they are going to give me.”
"They are responsible; If the turbine burned, if what happened happened, they are responsible for those people they have there and they have to solve those problems,” he concluded.
Abascal was convictedto six years of deprivation of libertyfor his participation in the historic 11J protests in the Matanzas municipality of Jovellanos. According to the Municipal Prosecutor's Office of that town, the young woman committed the crimes of "contempt", "attack" and "public disorder."
Tania Echevarría, for her part, wassentenced to six years in prisonfor participating in the 11J demonstrations in Colón. Killings.
The sentence of this Lady in White was ratified after the People's Court of Colón rejected her appeal last March.
Finally, Saily receivedan eight year sentence, for having participated in the 11-J demonstrations in the town of Perico, Matanzas.
His father, the opposition leader Félix Navarro Rodríguez, coordinator of the Movement for Democracy Pedro Luis Boitel,He was sentenced to nine years in prisonfor the same reasons.
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