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| "Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them." Hebrews 13:3 |
| Jorge Luis García Pérez (Antúnez) | |
Jorge Luis García Pérez, better known as “Antúnez”, is from Placetas in the province of Villa Clara. He was jailed in 1990 accused of “Oral Propaganda to the Enemy” and sentenced to 15 years in prison. He has been confined to punishment cells on many occasions, participating in many hunger strikes to protest the abuse and the unfair sentence, which have greatly damaged his health. Jorge has received severe beatings, which have left surface cracks on his bones; suffers from acute renal pains due to hypoglycemia, and has a nodular lesion on a lung that almost cost him his life when he did not receive proper medical attention. Just to be pre-admitted for this ailment he was forced into a life-threatening hunger strike aided by his sister, Bertha Antúnez Pernet and his companions at the entrance to the Nieves Morejón prison; who have been trying to awaken the world’s attention and interest to what is happening to him. Antúnez, a young black man, has been humiliated and discriminated against in the Castro jails because he in not in league with a regime that brags about a supposed social equality that it does not really support. He has been suffering for many years despite the many campaigns on his behalf, which seem to fall on deaf ears. While in the Red Ceramic prison in the province of Camagüey he was attacked by dogs trained to kill, that were specifically turned loose on him. He was also at the infamous Kilo-8 prison, also in Camagüey, where he partook in many protests, along with other political prisoners against the tortures and beatings that the prisoners receive. He was also involved in trying to maintain constant communications with other prisons. Antúnez was also a guest at the maximum-security Combinado del Este in Havana province, where he continued to denounce the violations of human rights being perpetrated against all prisoners. He was then sent to Ariza prison in the city of Cienfuegos, where he daily claims for proper medical care and humane treatment for himself and for his unfortunate companions, starting another hunger strike that could easily worsen his already diminished health. His integrity and courage in facing the adversary conditions of political prison, and his constant denouncing of those conditions, have branded him as an opposition of great magnitude who has earned the respect and love of all those who have shared the horrors of the unfair and repressive political prison in his country. |
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