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Open letter to national and international public opinion by Political Prisoner Jorge Luis García Pérez Antúnez
By Political Prisoner Jorge Luis García Pérez "Antúnez"

Jorge Luis Garcia Pérez Antúnez speaking to you and I take advantage of this opportunity to be able to evade the ferocious censorship that they impose inside the prisons of my country for denouncing the critical human rights situation in this Camagüey maximum security prison known by the name Kilo 7, predicting an unexpected interruption that can impede or to hinder this denunciation, I will try to be brief and concise.  In this cavern of torture and harassment one also finds confined the political prisoners: Alejandro González Raga, Armando Sosa Fortuni, Alfredo Pulido López, Jesús Rojas Pineda, Jorge Cervantes García, and Mario Enrique Mayo that have been confined for an indefinite time to the medical or infirmary post of the prison because of the serious physical deterioration of their health.  The previous, as well as the one who reports this, find us scattered among the common prison population kept in barracks that harbor more than a hundred men in each one to and where intense heat, lack of water, and scarce ventilation makes our continued existence almost unbearable. 

To this add the constant plague of mosquitoes, cockroaches, bedbugs and other insects that torture our bodies day and night and innumerable are the defendants that daily hurt themselves to demand that their rights be respected or to simply call the attention of the indifferent authorities to solve their problems.  Among these horrific acts, the following deserve to be emphasized: the injections of petroleum, urine, and fecal wastes, or section veins or tendons that in many cases have placed the victims at the edge of death or have left them mutilated for life.  Thus the same lack of medical attention causes havoc among the prisoners that turns out to be extremely difficult for them to be attended by a doctor because of their lack of pharmaceuticals.  In that same order, special attention is deserved for the terrible lack of dental attention. More than a few inmates without the possibility of being attended for severe pain in a molar use metal wires to extract them.

In Kilo 7 prison scores of inmates sleep on a humid and filthy floor for lack of a plank of chaff and of a bag with herbs and wastes that here they call a mattress.  The question of nutrition becomes more arduous. Each day that passes increases the number of prisoners suffering from malnutrition, low weight, and other maladies resultant from the scarce and extremely bad diet they receive.  With regard to the treatment prisoners receive, suffice with the sole observation that guards and officials at any hour of the day or night strike at the inmates with firm wooden sticks from the Marabú tree. 

All that has been presented before constitutes a brief exposition of what happens in this prison located in Camagüey.  What united, to the voice of impunity that the commissars enjoy of this and so many other violations should sensitize all people of good will around the world, to the governments and democrats so that they not cease in pressuring the government from Havana to obey the universally recognized norms that permit that human rights experts and officials of the United Nations Human Rights Commission and the International Red Cross visit Cuba and its prisons  to corroborate the  violations presented in this statement.

Reporting from Kilo 7 prison in Camagüey, Cuba

Prisoner of conscience Jorge Luis Garcia Pérez Antúnez. 

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