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Warning call on Cuban prisoner of conscience and hit on hunger strike
By Directorio Democrático Cubano


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Placetas, Cuba October 28th, 2014. The Cuban prisoner of conscience Iván Fernández Depestre has been on hunger strike since October 9th in Guamajal Prison and was severely beaten and taken to a punishment cell, according to information from the prison provided by prisoner Arcelio Lopez Rojas and received by Yris Pérez Aguilera, of the Rosa Parks Women’s Civil Rights Movement.

“Prisoner of conscience Iván Fernández Depestre was the victim of a beating by the lieutenant and second in command of the unit Elizán Lopez who carried out the beating and told him that he did not believe in opponents and did not believe in anyone, that they would kill him because they would not permit him to continue upending’ the prison, “said Pérez Aguilera from Placetas, who recalled that Depestre Fernandez has been on hunger strike since October 9, 2014.

 

Fernandez Depestre is a member of the opposition movement Youth Awake and the Orlando Zapata Tamayo National Civic Resistance Front (Front OZT), was arrested on July 30, 2013 in the city of Placetas during a protest march to remember the birth of Cuban martyr Frank País. He was immediately accused of “pre-criminal dangerousness”, tried and sentenced to three years in prison on August 2, 2013. He was declared a prisoner of conscience in September of 2013 by the international organization Amnesty International. Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has included him in his exhibit on prisoners of conscience in the world that is open on the island of Alcatraz.

 

“We are holding responsible the Castro regime of what may happen to Ivan Fernandez Depestre” concludes the statement of Yris Pérez Aguilera.

 

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