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Cuban Rights Activist Hospitalized in Serious Condition
By Cuban Democratic Directorate

Leading Activist Antúnez Says Hunger Strike to Continue

Placetas, Villa Clara Province, Cuba. February 24, 2009. Cuban Democratic Directorate. Human rights activist Iris Tamara Pérez Aguilera has been hospitalized after suffering a bout of hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar. Pérez Aguilera has been on hunger strike since February 17, and has stated that she will continue her protest no matter where she may find herself.

 

Fellow activists Diosiris Santana Pérez, a member of the Pedro Luis Boitel Political Prisoners, Segundo Rey Cabrera González, General Secretary of the Cuban Comité for Human Rights and Jorge Luis García Pérez “Antúnez,” founder of the Pedro Luis Boitel Political Prisoners and Pérez Aguilera’s husband. Antúnez has relocated to Placetas Municipal Hospital to continue the protest.

 

“When I left her she was conscious, crying, asking me please not to allow her to be hospitalized, not to allow anything to be fed intravenously because there were many prisoners in difficult situations. It was very difficult for me to convince her that she was needed, that she needed to live to continue struggling for her sake, for her brother’s and for all the prisoners and she agreed [to remain in the hospital for treatment]. She continues on hunger strike, however, and no matter where she may find herself she will continue on hunger strike, just as all our brothers will continue,” said Antúnez in a telephone statement to the Cuban Democratic Directorate.

 

Pérez Aguilera, who is President of the Rosa Parks Feminist Movement for Civil Rights, and her fellow activists are demanding:

 

1. An end to the torture and repression of imprisoned opposition activist Mario Alberto Pérez Aguilera and all other Cuban political prisoners.

 

2. Prompt and just resolutions to the cases of thousands of Cubans without a place to live, renewing the existing “Campaign for Dignified and Decorous Housing for Every Cuban.”

 

3. An end to the repression of peaceful human rights defenders, and that the Castro regime ratify and publish international human rights covenants and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to which Cuba is signatory.

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