Cuban regime releases 11J political prisoner visibly deteriorated.

In a deplorable physical state, the political prisoner and 11J protester in Cuba, Carlos Michael Morales Rodríguez, was released and placed under house arrest this Monday, according to reports by activists and independent journalists on social media.

Participant in the historic protests that took place on July 11, 2021, in towns and cities across Cuba, Morales Rodríguez was sentenced to two years and 10 months in prison in January 2022 by the People's Court of Caibarién.

Alongside him, four other protesters were also tried and sentenced to unfair penalties for exercising the right to protest that is enshrined in the regime's own Constitution.

Magdiel Rodríguez was sentenced to four years and six months; Javier Delgado Torna and José Rodríguez to three years and six months; and Isel Fumero was sentenced to two years and six months of imprisonment.

After almost a month on hunger strike, Morales Rodríguez was hospitalized for several days at the Arnaldo Milián Castro Provincial Clinical Surgical Hospital in Santa Clara and was awaiting trial, according to a report for ADN Cuba by pastor Mario Félix Lleonart.

This Monday, after the trial, the political prisoner was placed under house arrest, according to activist Betty Guerra Perdomo, mother of the also political prisoners from 11J, brothers Jorge and Nadir Martín Perdomo.

Independent journalist, Morales Rodríguez reported in September 2019 the case of Ismaray Ramos Pérez, a mother from Caibarién who was found sleeping on the street with her young children due to a lack of shelter, and who had been a victim of the indifference and mistreatment by the authorities.

"He has approached the local government to provide a space to be with his children and has received refusals. They have told him to give up the children so they don't live on the streets, and he has been threatened with imprisonment and the loss of his children. This was conveyed to him by the vice president of the People's Power named Idalmis," the journalist reported on his social media.

Days after the complaint was made public, and following the pressure from social media, Ramos Pérez recovered the housing from which she had been evicted. "The home that her relatives had taken from her, forcing her to live in rented accommodation until she hit rock bottom and ended up on the street, was returned to her by the authorities in Caibarién," reported Morales Rodríguez.

"Social media serves to fight against injustices," said the activist who would go out to protest in the streets on July 11, demanding along with hundreds of thousands of Cubans freedom, respect for human rights, and change in Cuba.

Organizations of civil society and the Cuban exile community expressed solidarity with Morales Rodríguez and demanded his release on multiple occasions following his imprisonment. The latest of these instances took place on July 17 in Miami, after the political prisoner ended his 27-day hunger strike.

This Monday, after being released from prison, the images shared on social media showed Morales Rodríguez with extreme thinness, a result of his act of protest and the terrible conditions in which the Cuban prison population survives (one of the highest in the world), including the thousand political prisoners that the totalitarian regime still holds behind bars.