Political prisoner Luis Robles Elizástigui has not received medical attention for pneumonia and an allergic process that affects his face in the Combinado del Este prison, in Havana.
“He called me, that he is sick. He has a fever, his face is fundamentally altered. It seems like an allergic process, and everything seems to indicate that he has either bronchitis or pneumonia. They already took him to the medical post and there it was decided to refer him to the hospital, something that has not been done," denounced his mother, Martí Yindra Elizástigui,in statements collected byRadio Television Martí.
The woman adds that her son has developed high blood pressure for which he has no medication.
The Combined authorities took Robles to the prison infirmary and told him that he would be transferred to a hospital, but until now he remains in his shelter.
“I'm going there, to see that situation, because the last straw is that he is unjustly imprisoned and are they going to let me die there? It is not easy,” lamented the mother of the political prisoner.
Martí Yindra Elizástigui also assured that he is not in good health because he refuses to eat the food they give him in prison.
“He tells me that he doesn't have anything to eat anymore. So, last month's jaba was not the best, as it has been previously. He told me that he no longer had food, and that he hasn't eaten prison food in a long time," he said.
A few days ago, the woman had asked again for the release of her son,this time through a poem.
“I would like with my tears / Wash away the pain from my soul / To see if I can make it one day / Have peace and a little calm,” he wrote on his Facebook profile.
Luis Robles, 29 years old, is serving a 5-year sentence in the Combinado del Este maximum security prison after being arrested on December 4, 2020 for holding up a sign demanding the end of repression in Cuba and the release of protesting rapper Denis Solís, during a protest. alone on San Rafael Boulevard, Centro Habana, City of Havana.
From the beginning, his imprisonment has been marked by several irregularities such as delays in proceedings and little transparency in judicial actions.
In mid-September, his family handed overa criminal review appealto his case before the Cuban Ministry of Justice.
The relatives base their hopes on that the procedures of the new Cuban Penal Code, in force as of next December, will help reduce not only the 5 years of his sentence but the conditions under which he can serve it.
In June, Yindra Elizástegui reported that her son had been a victim in prison in blows, isolation, lack of communication and even photographed naked by his jailers.
On April 23, an inmate on condition of anonymity commented that Luis Robles was scolded by an officer identified as Lieutenant Ramoncito, who handcuffed him and hit him on the head.
At the beginning of the year, Luis Robles' relatives filed a complaint with the Directorate of Prisons for beatings, humiliation and human rights violations. In May, Cuban authorities classified the complaint as “a farce aimed at discrediting the Cuban prison system.”
The case of the young political prisoner has been the cause ofcriticism of the governmentby the Cuban Observatory of Human Rights (OCDH) andthe government of North American President Joe Biden.
In March 2021, the then acting assistant secretary of the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs of the United States Department of State, Julie Chung, stressed that “freedom of expression is a human right.” Sharing the same lines on Twitter, the current deputy secretary, Brian A. Nichols, warned that no one should be jailed for displaying a sign.
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