Young 11J protester tries to commit suicide in Quivicán prison

The Cuban motherBeatriz Conde Mesa denounced that the life of his son, the political prisoner of 11JAbel Lázaro Machado Conde, is in danger in prison because he has attempted suicide.

Machado Conde ispsychiatric patient and he is in the Quivicán prison, where he does not receive medical attention, nor is he provided with the psychotropic drug treatment he needs to remain stable.

On Monday theyoung man tried to commit suicide in the bathroom area of company number 6 of the Quivicán prison. Despite being in a vulnerable situation, the guards responded with physical abuse, keeping him handcuffed by his hands and feet in a hallway all night.

Beatriz reported this case of torture to Radio Television Martí and said thatyour son has not received care from any psychiatrist despite the fact that, upon being arrested and tried, a specialist in that branch of medicine certified that the young man was not fit to be in prison.

The mother ofpolitical prisoner of 11J stated that when Abel was a child, he was diagnosed withorganic personality disorder. He has attention deficit and brain injuries. This young man has had multiple suicide attempts.

"Since childhoodtried to cut his wrists, it was also triedhang with a belt when I was 10 years old," explained the political prisoner's mother.

"They're just giving him epilepsy medication in prison," he said. "They don't give any antidepressants. They don't give him any of that. He always took carbamazepine because he has, apart from the organic behavior disorder, a focus of epilepsy," he noted.

The Cuban mother asked for attention to her case and held the regime responsible if something happens to her son's life.

"I hold the Güines police, State Security and the head of the prison responsible. I have been warning them for a while that no one stops to tell me that nothing happened to the little boy, because when I stopped at the Prosecutor's Office of the Region, I was told that no one was going to touch that child. I hold responsible in this country everyone who has had anything to do with him, with my son's life," said Beatriz.

In April the mother reported that her son was ininhumane conditions in the Quivicán prison. He sleeps on the floor because his mattress is "full of holes" and he only has a board with bed bugs to lie on.

Abel Lázaro Machado Conde is serving a sentence of9 years of deprivation of liberty. He was found guilty of crimes of sabotage and public disorder, for demonstrating on July 11, 2021 in Güines, Mayabeque province.

In March theyoung man suffered a beating in prison. He assures that the person responsible was Yulieski Menéndez Montero, second chief of the prison. Another prisoner, Kevin Canlo Morales, was brutally beaten by Menéndez to death in the Quivicán prison.