The Cuban guyLuis Robles Elizástegui ended his hunger strike in Cuba. The young man who protested with a sign on San Rafael Boulevard is a prisoner and assured that prison officials did not allow him to receive medication so that he would die soon.
"They told me that they were not going to let me in even the medicine so that I would die faster in here. How could I not give up? That's what they told me! So, how do you think I'm not going to give up. I have right to stop me. How are they going to not let me get medicine so that I die?" he said.Luis Robles in a voice recording.
The audio in which Robles' testimony can be heard was made public by the Cuban activistAnamely Ramos on the social network Facebook. He accompanied the recording with a note in which he points out the constant abuses to which opponents of the government are subjected in Cuban prisons.
"A young boy who demonstrated peacefully, as seen in the video that circulated, a boy who is not violent or does harm to anyone, should not be going through this ordeal," Anamely said and asked for the freedom toLuis Robles.
Luis Robles Elizástegui started a hunger strike last Friday, after being transferred to a punishment cell within the Combinado del Este, for protesting against the mistreatment that prisoners receive in Cuba.
In his protest, Robles wore a sweater with protest signs and highlighted that prisoners in Cuba are given spoiled food.
The relatives of Luis Robles offered statements in which they assure thatin the Combinado del Este prison they did not give the young man the medication he needed for their gastric reflux conditions, even though their brother had taken them several times. This aggravated his state of health in prison.
Luis Robles He was imprisoned on December 4, 2020 for demonstrating with a sign on San Rafael Boulevard, in Havana. He peacefully called for the release of Denis Solís and the end of repression in Cuba. The government accused him of perpetrating "acts against State Security." However, Prisoners Defenders has declared him a prisoner of conscience.
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