Roxana García Lorenzo, sister of the political prisoner Andy Garcia Lorenzo, denounced arbitrariness in the work camp where the young man demonstrating from 11J is arrested.
The activist explained that a camp official approached Andy on several occasions to speak badly about her and this caused altercations between the political prisoner and his repressor. In protest, Andy refuses to work the land and refused to communicate by telephone with his family for the next two months.
"My brother and other protesters are in forced labor camps. They are there unjustly, because he should be free. Remains victim of repression of State Security," explained Roxana.
According to her story, the officer who represses her brother and provokes him by launching insults against her, is refused to receive some cigarettes that the family took the prisoner to the camp. They had to contact the higher-ups of the penitentiary institution to ask that Andy receive them.
Roxana denounced that the State Security He has called all the people close to the family to question them and discredit the García Lorenzos.
"They have been summoning them for interrogations, threaten them or have 'conversations' about our family," Roxana said in her live broadcast. She explained that she and her family members are not going to give up, they will continue fighting for the freedom of Andy and the political prisoners in Cuba.
He explained that currently Andy should be free waiting for the closure of a judicial process, but after being released his brother was arbitrarily detained and to date has not been released.
"Here laws are not respected. We are still waiting for the hearing papers from the provincial court where they say the change of measure for Andy. We don't have that paper (it should have arrived more than a month ago) yet. He should be free until that paper arrives and he is in prison," Roxana commented.
The activist considers that getting out of prison is not enough for the protesters, because even in the forced labor camps they are being repressed.
"Why do we have to settle for crumbs? They are innocent, my brother is innocent, he has no reason to remain in prison. We continue to go out into the streets with fear and fear of what could happen to us.
On May 25, Andy García was released and returned to his home in Santa Clara. The neighbors on his block gave him a warm welcome, but a few days later, after making a broadcast on his social networks, the young man was arrested and transferred to a work camp, where he remains to this day.
In April 2022 Andy was sentenced to 4 years in prison by the courts of Santa Clara (the prosecution requested 7 years in prison) for demonstrating peacefully in the protests on July 11, 2021 in their city. He later began an appeal process in which he denounced that the Cuban authorities were judging him for his way of thinking.
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