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Luis Robles holds State Security responsible for what happens to him in prison

The young man, in prison since December for protesting with a sign on San Rafael Boulevard in Havana, claims that he has been threatened by the political police. The UN has taken an interest in his case and the Cuban Government says that he is a common criminal.


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The Cuban political prisonerLuis RoblesHe holds State Security and the Cuban Government responsible for anything that may happen to him in prison after the political police have threatened him to stop making complaints from prison.

"Anything that happens to me here, I hold them (State Security) and the Cuban Government responsible. As long as I have strength I will continue to denounce what is wrong and defend what I believe to the last consequences," he stressed. .

In an audio to which you have had accessCyberCuba, Robles is clear with his family: "What happens from now on I hold them responsible. I am going to continue defending what I believe, my brother, until the last consequences. The day I see an injustice and stop reporting it or stop taking her out for any threat, that day I will stop being me. I will always defend what I believe and what I feel to the last consequences," he said.

In the conversation with his brother, Robles also expresses the desire he has to talk to his child this Sunday,Father's Day, that he had not planned to call his family. "I want to talk to my son," he said.

The young man, arrested on December 4,is serving preventive detention, accusedof a crime against State Security, He also asked about "the international fight."

"It's good that they haven't forgotten me," he said when his brother replied that this fight continues for him and for all the political prisoners in Cuba.

"It's not for me alone. It's for everyone," Robles remarked.

This Thursday's call

This Sunday's phone call comes after Luis Robles learned this Thursday in prison that the United Nations has asked Cuba for explanations for his imprisonment.

His anger was monumental when he learned that Havana has justified the violation of his legitimate right to freedom of expression and demonstration by justifying that he is "a common criminal."

His family informed him that the Cuban Government assured the UN that it "feels sorry that alleged criminals hide behind human rights."

Furthermore, Cuba has alerted the United Nations that he has been detained four times; who supposedly has bad behavior in society and who had voluntarily gone on a hunger strike.

"Oh, oh, how shameless they are. Where am I a criminal? A person with no criminal record. How do they have the nerve to say that I am a criminal," Robles lamented.

Luis RoblesHe went on his first hunger strikewhen in prison they denied him access to medication "so that he would die faster."

The second strike was when they put him in a punishment cell following an alleged demonstration that the San Isidro Movement was planning to hold in the Plaza de la Revolución.

In that second strike, he suffered an allergy due to the dirt and humidity of the cell. However, the Cuban Government attributes it to an asthma attack that Luis Robles suffered in prison and maintains that he received medical attention on March 17 and that he is now stable.

The young man clarifies that it was because he was not treated in time and that his health condition worsened because a doctor saw him when he had been out of the punishment cell for three or four days. "That's when they came to pay attention to me," he recalled.

"It is a lack of respect for a person without having a record or having done anything against society and everyone who knows me knows that I am a decent person, that I live for my son, for my job and to help my family, how they They have the nerve to say that you are a criminal. That is a lack of respect. What are they looking for? For me to go on strike again to see where this is going to go. do it with everyone who demonstrates against the Government. My brother, what I did, I did it because I felt sorry and not because no one incited me," said Robles, in a second audio to which he has had access.CyberCuba.

At this point in the conversation, Landys, Luis Robles' brother, dissuaded him from starting a third hunger strike because he defended that as a family they want him alive. "That doesn't help me. Not even God willing, if we lose you..." he told him.

It was only like this, thanks to the intervention of his brother, that Luis Robles agreed not to stand up against the defamation of which he is the object of the Cuban Government, harassed by the UN for the continuous violations of human rights on the Island.

Right now,Turkish lawyer Kurtulus Bastimar has presented the case of Luis Manuel Otero at the United Nations and alsothe report of forced disappearance of Maykel Osorbo arrived, which forced the Cuban Government to take him to a prison in Pinar del Río and immediately put him in contact with his relatives.

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Tania Costa

(Havana, 1973) lives in Spain. He has directed the Spanish newspaper El Faro de Melilla and FaroTV Melilla. She was head of the Murcian edition of 20 minutes and Communications advisor to the Vice Presidency of the Government of Murcia (Spain).


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