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After three months without seeing each other, the Cuban political prisoner Félix Navarro and his daughter, also a political prisoner Saylí Navarro, were able to reunite briefly last Wednesday following approval from the authorities at the Agüica prison in the municipality of Colón, Matanzas.
It is a right granted to inmates by Cuban law, and in the case of Navarro and his daughter, it was clearly violated, as the prison regulations stipulate a visit every 45 days.
The information was confirmed to Martí Noticias by activist Iván Hernández Carrillo, who went to the prison along with Sonia Álvarez Campillo, the wife of Félix Navarro.
"Sonia and I went to the Agüica prison. They allowed Sonia to enter, and a female soldier received her there and told her that Félix was fine. Sonia told her that she wanted proof of life, that she wanted to see Félix, and the soldier replied that they could not bring him because he was visiting with his daughter," she explained.
Saylí Navarro was transferred from the women's prison to Agüica to see her father. Her mother, however, was not allowed to enter and had to stay outside.
"We saw Saylí being taken out when they brought her back to the women's prison," Hernández Carrillo recounted.
The meeting took place in a context of extreme tension: just a week earlier, the opposition member had been the victim of a brutal beating in the same prison, allegedly at the hands of Major Noslen Pedroso Sotolongo, head of Internal Order in Agüica, who ordered his transfer to a punishment cell under conditions of isolation.
According to the activist, Félix Navarro is apparently no longer in a punishment cell. "If he were in a punishment cell, they wouldn’t have allowed the visit," he emphasized.
Navarro, coordinator of the Pedro Luis Boitel Movement for Democracy, is serving a nine-year prison sentence for his involvement in the protests of July 11.
Sentenced in March 2022, he was granted parole on January 18, 2025, but was reincarcerated just three months later.
His situation is particularly concerning as the dissident, 72 years old, suffers from diabetes, severe respiratory issues, and other health conditions.
During this time in prison, his health has visibly deteriorated. "I think I am at the end of my rope," he expressed in a telephone call in May of last year, when he could barely speak due to severe pain in his lungs.
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