Wilber Aguilar Bravo, father of the political prisoner of 11J Walnier Luis Aguilar Rivera, reported that the authorities of the Sancti Spíritus prison denied him the visit to his son after the family traveled more than 300 kilometers from Havana, spent over 24 hours without sleep, and arrived at the prison around 7:00 am.
According to what Wilber recounts in a Facebook video, the family waited in the prison until 11:00 am, when they were called to an office to be informed that "the visit had not been scheduled" and that they needed to coordinate it with State Security in Havana.
Wilber described the sacrifice made before the trip: cooking with charcoal due to a lack of electricity, renting vehicles, and traveling with small children—all to receive that response after four hours of waiting.
"We couldn't see Walnier; we arrived there a little past 7 as we always do. Time passed, and by 11 in the morning, they called us to an office and told us that we hadn’t scheduled the visit, that we didn’t have an appointment, after we had spent more than 24 hours without sleeping," he reported.
At the time of the recording, Walnier had not seen his family for about 45 days. That day, the young man called his aunt to convey a message that captured his state of mind: "Your son didn't want bags, he didn't want anything, what your son wanted was to hug his daughters," the father recounted, quoting his son's words.
The man clarifies that the decision was not an administrative error, but rather a deliberate reprisal. "The order comes from Havana, from those who are in hiding, from those hidden in the bushes, whose faces are unknown to anyone, and they are the ones giving orders against the people," he stated.
He also reported that, while his family was denied access, others were allowed into the prison that day: "There is inequality among people, racism, everything; that is happening here in Cuba."
Walnier, 26 years old, was arrested in July 2021 for participating in the protests of July 11 in the neighborhood of La Güinera, Arroyo Naranjo. He was sentenced to 12 years for sedition - reduced on appeal, as the initial prosecutor's request was between 22 and 23 years - despite suffering from a borderline intellectual disability due to an organic cause with brain injury, a condition documented by specialists that the court ignored.
He is the only one of the 17 co-defendants in his case who remains imprisoned, as his father recently revealed.
Since January, Nieves Morejón has been serving a sentence in the prison in Guayos, Sancti Spíritus, marking her third transfer to facilities increasingly distant from her family.
The harassment of the father is systematic: the Cuban Observatory of Human Rights has documented at least six repressive acts against Wilber just in 2026, including summons for interrogation, agents preventing him from leaving his home, and constant police surveillance in front of his house.
The authorities have explicitly warned him that his social media activism is jeopardizing his son's prison benefits.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights granted precautionary measures to Walnier in July 2022 and extended that protection to his father and family unit in January 2025, upon confirming the seriousness, urgency, and risk of irreparable harm.
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