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URGENT CALL TO ACTION: THE LIVES OF TWO POLITICAL PRISONERS IN JEOPARDY Relatives form the island make an international call for solidarity The health condition of Librado Linares García and Alfredo Manuel Pulido López, two political prisoners in Prisoner of conscience engineer Librado Ricardo “The Cuban Reflection Movement is demanding the Cuban government immediately release Librado Linares García due to the inhumane conditions of the prison: humidity, dust, poor nutrition and systematic stress which worsen the “epitheliopathy” causing irreversible damage in the human rights activist’s vision,” affirms the statement. Also, Rebeca Rodríguez Souto, wife of Dr. Alfredo Manuel Pulido López, a Cuban prisoner of conscience sentenced to 14 years of imprisonment during the crackdown of 2003, attended the family visit at Kilo 7 Prison in Camagüey on January 31, 2006. She commented the following via telephone to exiled activist Laida Carro, leader of the Cuban American Women’s Coalition: "I left the visit feeling desperate upon seeing the critical state of my husband's health, who every day more is broken. He continues losing weight and all his pathologies are aggravated, among these, he suffers from migraines so strong that he cannot read or write," declared Rodríguez Souto. Both families have sought a “licensed house arrest” for health reasons. However, they have yet to receive an answer to this request. The Cuban Democratic Directorate condemns the critical state that these distinguished political prisoners are facing and asks urgently for the world’s solidarity. Given by the Cuban Democratic Directorate on the 8th day of the month of February of 2006. Send by E-mail | Printable Version
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