The regime in Santiago de Cuba prevented a prisoner from properly saying goodbye to his deceased mother on Monday, turning an intimate moment into an oppressive police siege.
The journalist Yosmany Mayeta reported on Facebook about the unfortunate incident that occurred at the funeral home in Santiago de Cuba, where an inmate was transferred for only 10 minutes to say goodbye to his deceased mother.
According to witnesses, the guards watching over the inmate formed a kind of barrier, blocking access for family and friends who were trying to get closer to the son to express their condolences.
One of the people present, who recorded the scene, expressed his outrage by describing how the pain of the incarcerated son was treated with complete insensitivity by the authorities.
"They are three brothers, and one of them is in Mexico. When the one who is abroad tried to call him to share the pain of this loss, as soon as he took out his phone, the guards almost hit him and took him away; they didn't even let his mother cry," recounted the complainant.
The person who made the complaint reported that the ordeal of saying goodbye to the deceased continued at the cemetery.
The vehicle transporting the body to Santa Ifigenia Cemetery had to wait almost an hour at the entrance because the driver forgot the transfer permit papers at the funeral home, further prolonging the painful process, Mayeta noted.
The journalist described the situation faced by the incarcerated population in Cuba as regrettable when a family member dies and they are barely granted a few minutes to say goodbye.
"And when there is a cell phone recording or family members on video calls, they quickly take the prisoner away," denounced Mayeta.
Abuses committed by the Cuban regime against the incarcerated population and their families are common.
Recently, the political prisoner Lizandra Góngora, sentenced to 14 years for the protests of July 11, managed to reunite with her children in prison after three and a half months.
The prisoner had been transferred to a jail in the Isle of Youth, a measure that is considered a "cruel and ruthless tactic of the Castro regime in retaliation for her political opposition," her brother, Ariel Góngora, denounced.
Nelva Ismarays Ortega Tamayo, wife of the Cuban opposition leader José Daniel Ferrer, has not seen her husband since last April.
On Monday, July 29, the leader of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (Unpacu) turned 54 years old in the maximum-security prison Mar Verde, in Santiago de Cuba, but once again the regime did not allow him to see his family, who demand proof of life.
In an audio accessed by CiberCuba, Nelva Ortega Tamayo explains that she approached Mar Verde accompanied by the children of José Daniel Ferrer, Fátima Victoria and Daniel José, with the purpose of seeing her husband and congratulating him. "Unfortunately, once again that right was denied."
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