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The health of polítical prisoner Raúl Arencibia Fajardo is
deteriorating.
(HAVANA/CUBA/October
21/Puenteinfocubamiami.org)-
Olga Ibarra Echevarría, wife of political prisoner Raúl Arencibia
Fajardo confined in the prison 1580, denounced today in Havana that her
husband's health is deteriorating. Ibarra pointed out that on October
7th, she was able to visit her husband for a period of three hours and
she pointed out that her husband has a permanent cough, sore throat and
high fever due to the lack of medical attention he has required for over
a month now.
"My husband told me don't ever stop denouncing this atrocities"- Olga
pointed out with tears in her eyes. "On the 6th of this month he was
taken to the hospital of the prison Combinado del Este, where they took
x-rays of his lungs but could not perform an x-ray of his head for the
power went out. They kept him all day in a "tapiada" without or
medicine." To this day they have not given my husband the results of the
test and prison officials cite the reason being the lack of
transportation.
Arencibia Fajardo is a member of the February 24 Pro Human Rights
Movement , and also of the Club Friends of human rights. Months before
his sentencing, he created a project of solidarity with the political
presidio that consisted of sending dozens of letter to the political
prisoners. He was sentenced to 3 years in prison in an unjust trial ,
for the supposed crimes of contempt and public disorder along with
dissidents Virgilio Marante Guelmes and Orlando Zapata Tamayo. Zapata
Tamayo was recognized as prisoner of conscience in the same cause
by Amnesty International.
Reporting from Havana for the
Information Bridge Cuba Miami and Net For Cuba International Ernesto
Roque Cintero, an independent journalist with the UPECI. Given on the
20th day of October 2004.
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