Father of political prisoner Yasser Rivero Boni dies: "He couldn't even say goodbye to him"

Yasser Rivero Boni, Cuban activist and political prisoner imprisoned in the Combinado del Este, in Havana, could not say goodbye to his father, Luis Miguel Rivero, who died on February 15 due to heart failure.

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"Yasser is not feeling well, he never thought that his father was going to die and he was not even able to say goodbye to him at the funeral home since the Castro dictatorship did not take him there, supposedly due to poor management," he said.

Marcel also said that these justifications about “bad management” for not taking the political prisoner to the funeral home are common practices of the Cuban dictatorship and recalled that “Yasser has been a victim for years of beatings, arbitrary arrests and several imprisonments, to the point of losing the vision in one eye due to beatings and other sufferings.”

He asked for “a lot of strength for Yasser” and for his father, “light for his soul and may he rest in peace,” while saying that “the Castro-communist regime and all its accomplices have to pay for another victim of that system.”

Days before, the Combined del Este agents denied Yasser permission to visit his father, who was hospitalized at the Calixto García hospital.

In a complaint sent toCubalex, Yaquelín Boni, who is a member of the Ladies in White and the activist's mother, reported that on February 6, the father of her son, 79 years old, was taken to the hospital in a very critical condition. For this reason, they decided to request permission from the penitentiary center so that the young man could temporarily go out to visit his father.

Since that date they were waiting for the signature of the head of the prison, Lieutenant Colonel Osmani Charchabal, to authorize the permit, an event that ultimately did not happen.

Yasser was sentenced again by the regime, in November 2023, to one year and six months in prison for an alleged crime of public disorder.

In May 2021, the young man had been released after he was sentenced in 2019 for the crime of “attack” to three years in prison.

His name joins that of many others who, while imprisoned, have lost their parents. Recently,the mother of the Cuban political prisoner Yonay Moreu Leal, sentenced to 15 years in prison for demonstrating on July 11, 2021 in Cárdenas, Matanzas province, died at the age of 59, due to a heart attack.

In 2022, the mothers of Cuban political prisonersJuan Luis Sanchez, Moncho Perez andBarbarian of Céspedes They died without seeing their children free.