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NEWS
SOS sent
from Combinado del Este by Arturo Suárez Ramos.
http://www.puenteinfocubamiami.org
This November 4, the political prisoner Arturo Suárez Ramos concluded a
hunger strike which lasted 21 days. Today, sequels of said deed have
caused his body to swell up, and he is critically ill. Prison
authorities deny his constant requests for medical attention and
therefore he fears for his personal integrity.
From: Arturo Suárez Ramos.
For: Isabel Ramos (mother).
November 12 2003.
Mother:
My entire body has been swollen for the past 8 days; I am presenting a
widespread edema as sequel of the 21 days I was without eating. It feels
as if my entire body is going to burst, all my muscles hurt, my
testicles are swollen and they also hurt. It hurts all through the
esophagus, the thorax and the abdomen.
At times I feel sick. However, Lieutenant Colonel José A. Rojas García
denies my requests for medical attention, even though I expressed to him
my need for a medical checkup, for most likely I am suffering from a
widespread edema, as it happened to me after my last two hunger strikes,
but he still blocks my request for medical attention.
Believe me, I feel bad, very bad; I would be hospitalized if I were in a
system that respected the human rights of its prisoners. I am sending
you an electrocardiogram taken of me ten days into the hunger strike for
I had chest pains, I believe it read somewhat altered; I am not sure;
the prison physician said it was a muscular pain. Take it to a doctor
you trust so he can check the results.
Take care, I love you and don't worry, our dignity and decency is above
the dignity and decency of many traitors' of the Cuban State Security.
Reporting the correspondents of Lux Info Press in Havana Gilberto
Figueredo Älvarez and Ada Márquez, also, National Coordinator of the
Democratic Party November 30 "Frank País". For the Information Bridge
Cuba Miami, given on November 20, 2003.
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