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They denounce the delicate situation of Maykel Osorbo in prison after an attack

The activist was attacked by four inmates last week.

Maykel Osorbo © Captura de video/Facebook
Maykel Osorbo Photo © Video Capture/Facebook

Cuban rapper and political prisoner Maykel Osorbo Castillo sent a message from prison indicating that his situation there is very delicate after he was attacked by four inmates last week.

A message posted on your profile "Maykel Osorbo 349" states that "Maykel's situation is very delicate at this minute" and shows a message sent by the musician through a brief phone call.

"Sometimes losing is winning, violence is not correct when we serve a sentence unjustifiably... people like me, who know that they try to harm us at all times, we have to have the ability to see all possible scenarios and not make the mistake of giving a permanent solution to a temporary problem," he saidMaykel Osorbo from prison.

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At the end of March, the dissident and co-author of the song “Patria y Vida” was in a punishment cell and held incommunicado for his continuous confrontations with the prison repressors to protect his rights.

On April 18, activist Anamely Ramos confirmed that she had been attacked in prison by four inmates.

"They called from the prison to say thatfour prisoners framed Maykel and they even took blood. A certain Bemba and others," said Ramos on the social network X.

In 2022 Maykel "Osorbo" was sentenced to nine years of deprivation of liberty, for alleged acts of outrage against the symbols of the country, contempt, defamation of institutions and organizations and of heroes and martyrs, attacks, resistance and public disorders, said a statement from the Attorney General's Office of the Republic of Cuba.

Several international organizations have joined together to call for the release of him and Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, who remain in maximum security prisons in Pinar del Río and Artemisa, respectively.

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