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An increase in beatings and abuses at the prison Kilo 8.
(CIEGO DE ÁVILA/CUBA/November 7/Puenteinfocubamiami.org)-
Here below is a denouncement by the political prisoner Fabio Prieto from
the prison Kilo 8 in Camaguey, and sent to Juan Carlos González Leyva,
president of the Cuban Human Rights Foundation, who provided said
information to Acción Democrática Cubana:
The never ending beatings on behalf of the prison authorities at the
prison Kilo 8 in Camaguey have increased drastically in the last few
days, specially against Daniel Ferrer Martínez, Juan Carlos Herrera
Acosta and other common prisoners, locked in the torture area known as
"Major Severity".
While they were beating me up as I was held down on the floor with my
arms on my back in handcuffs and a my head pinned down to the floor by
the boot of a regime lackey, they screamed "traitor, worm, coward",
that's how I became unconscious- said Herrera Acosta, who suffered
intolerable pain in his throat, eyes swollen and other bruises.
The police break the telephones, mostly to avoid news getting out of the
prison. Prisoners refused to stand up for the counts as a form of
protest, causing extreme anger to the State Security who then authorized
the brutal beatings as retaliation.
José Daniel Ferrer García and Juan Carlos Herrera Acosta are two of the
group of 75 dissidents and opponents that were sanctioned to long prison
terms in 2003 for dissenting from the official political views.
At the closing of this note we learned that José Daniel Ferrer García is
in a hunger strike since the 21 of October. Also, the beatings of the
political prisoners provoked protests amongst the penal population, for
that reason many prisoners were hit and injured by police with billy
clubs.
By Fabio Prieto Llorente
Group of the 75
10/21/04
This information was given to the Information Bridge Cuba Miami
and Net For Cuba International by Acción Democrática Cubana on
the 5th day of November 2004.
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