Bárbara Isaac Roque, mother of the political prisoner of 11JLisdany Rodríguez Isaac, reported that her daughter became pregnant during a conjugal visit with her husband, also a political prisoner, and was being coerced into having an abortion.
“Lisdany and her husband, after years of waiting to have a child, had a meeting in the conjugal pavilion and, to the surprise of both, she became pregnant with a much-desired child. "She is almost seven weeks pregnant," said the prisoner's mother in statements sent to the organization.Prisoners Defenders (PD).
State Security officers from the Guamajal prison, in Villa Clara, are reportedly forcing the young woman to undergo an abortion.
“She has never been pregnant in her life and coincidentally at this bad time she comes to get pregnant and she doesn't want to take it out. He's six weeks old, almost seven. And they are not giving him good food there. There is no medicine, there is nothing,” denounced the mother of the political prisoner.
Given this situation, State Security is pressuring the inmate to have an abortion.
“Now State Security wants to force her to remove the child. She told me that she doesn't want to take the child out. She feels very bad. There is no gravinol for dizziness. There is no medicine in there. They are not treating her, because they want to force her to take it out,” he said.
“She fears for her life, that they will force her to take it out and that something will happen to her. And I also fear for her life,” he added.
Bárbara Isaac learned the news through a phone call made by her other daughter, Lidiani, who is also a political prisoner.
Lisdany and Lidiani are 25 years old and are triplets.
Two of the three sisters are imprisoned and are being held in the Guamajal women's prison, in Santa Clara, whereThey serve an eight-year prison sentence for participating in the anti-government protests of July 11, 2021.
On July 15, 2021, the authoritiesThey arrested Lisdany Rodríguez Isaac and her sister, Lidiani, for their peaceful participation in protests on 11J.
The sisters, both teaching assistants by profession, had no criminal record at the time of their arrest. This, however, did not matter to the Placetas Municipal Prosecutor's Office, whichrequested 10 years in prison for them for the alleged crimes of public disorder, contempt and attack.
In March 2022 it was reported that he had received an eight-year prison sentence.
The United Nations has recently defended its cause in the accusatory letter sent by four Special Rapporteurs and the Working Group for Arbitrary Detention.
Both political prisoners are members of the Association of Free Yorubas of Cuba, an independent Santeria community.
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