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PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE SEWS HIS MOUTH SHUT AS AN ACT OF PROTEST
by Luis Esteban Espinosa / December 28, 2006
Ciego de Avila, Cuba – www.PayoLibre.com – Cuban Prisoner of conscience JUAN CARLOS HERRERA ACOSTA sewed his mouth shut Tuesday afternoon, December 26, at the maximum security Prison of Kilo 8, located in the province of Camagüey.
Juan Carlos Gonzalez Leiva, president of the Cuban Foundation for Human Rights (FCDH) in the island and source of this information, stated to this reporter that Herrera Acosta sewed his mouth shut to protest the hostile treatment he is suffering at the hands of State Security and Military officers at this penitentiary.
According to Gonzalez Leiva, the guards deprive this prisoner of conscience his right to telephone calls and his end of the year family visit is suspended. Herrera Acosta is under continuous psychological persecution, since he is tormented by dangerous common prisoners, is arbitrarily searched day and night, and he is accused of being a homosexual and a collaborator of State Security.
Gonzalez Leiva finally stated that Herrera Acosta's delicate state of health is becoming worse since he is confined in a cell without his belongings and is forced to sleep on the floor surrounded by insects and rodents.
Juan Carlos Herrera Acosta, 40 years old, is suffering from dystrophy and numerous other ailments, some of them being: heart blockage, vitiligo, high blood pressure, chronic gastritis, and bone disease.
Juan Carlos Herrera Acosta was condemned to serve 20 years in prison during the March-April 2003, wave of repression in Cuba, and is presently confined in the same compound with dangerous convicts condemned to death and to life imprisonment.
Article by the independent press agency, Uncensored Youth (JOVENES SIN CENSURA) legally unrecognized by the Cuban government.
Translation: Coalition of Cuban-American Women/LAIDA CARRO
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Luis Esteban Espinosa
28 de diciembre de 2006
Ciego de Avila, Cuba – www.PayoLibre.com – El prisionero de conciencia Juan Carlos Herrera Acosta se cosio la boca este martes 26 de diciembre en horas de la tarde, en la prision de maxima severidad de Kilo 8, provincia de Camagüey.
Juan Carlos Gonzalez Leiva, presidente de la Fundacion Cubana de Derechos Humanos (FCDH) y fuente de esta informacion, dijo a este reportero que Herrera Acosta se cosio la boca en protesta por la politica hostil desatada por la seguridad del Estado y los militares de ese centro penitenciario contra su persona.
Segun la fuente, los carceleros le privan al prisionero de conciencia el derecho a la comunicacion telefonica, lo acosan a traves de reos comunes, le quitaron la visita por el fin de de año, lo requisan a cualquier hora del dia y de la noche, lo difaman de homosexual y colaborador de la seguridad del estado y lo mantienen bajo una guerra sicologica sin descanso.
Gonzalez Leiva concluyo diciendo, que Acosta fue confinado en una celda de castigo privado de todas sus pertenencias, donde tiene que dormir en el suelo, rodeado de insectos y roedores; que agrava la situacion el delicado estado de salud en que se encuentra.
Herrera Acosta, de 40 años de edad, esta distrofico y padece de varias enfermedades, entre ellas: bloqueo cardiaco, vitiligo, hipertension arterial, gastritis cronica y problemas oseos.
Juan Carlos Herrera Acosta fue condenado a 20 años de prision durante la ola represiva de marzo-abril del 2003 y se encuentra recluido en el area donde estan los condenados a pena de muerte y a cadena perpetua.
Agencia de prensa Jóvenes sin censura (El gobierno cubano le niega a esta agencia su reconocimiento legal).
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