The territories with the highest number of reports were the provinces of Santiago de Cuba, Havana and Camagüey
EFE (via 14ymedio), Havana, 10 January 2025 – The Cuban Prison Documentation Center (CDPC) registered 105 complaints from people imprisoned in Cuba in December 2024, most of them (78) related to human rights violations, according to the monthly report of this NGO published this Thursday.
This independent platform based in Mexico noted that the most frequent forms of repression were incidents of harassment and repression (52), denial of medical care (22), poor living conditions in prison (17), and problems with food (16).
It also indicated that in the last month of 2024, 25 other forms of repression against inmates were documented, including beatings, punishment cells, restrictions on communication and denial of rights.
The territories with the highest number of reported violations were the provinces of Santiago de Cuba (18), Havana (17) and Camagüey (13), and in the prisons section, those of Boniato, in Santiago de Cuba, Combinado del Este, in Havana and the Quivicán prison, in the western province of Mayabeque, according to the report.
The CDPC also added that at least 47 inmates (6 women and 41 men) were victims of rape during that period and 18 complaints referred to problems affecting the entire prison population of a given prison.
Frank Morales Cuesta, Yosvany Sánchez and Jorge Luis Torres Vaillant, who suffered from tuberculosis, diarrhea and malnutrition, died due to poor medical care
It denounced that prisoners Frank Morales Cuesta, Yosvany Sánchez and Jorge Luis Torres Vaillant, who suffered from tuberculosis, diarrhea and malnutrition, died due to poor medical care.
It also mentions the cases of two other inmates who died. One after being allegedly assaulted by prisoners and the other after being beaten by prison guards, according to testimonies that this NGO believes to be true.
The CDPC identified the following political prisoners: José Daniel Ferrer, Andrés Lugo Pérez, Gustavo Colás Castillo, and the common prisoner Torres Vaillant with additional allegations of repression.
He believes that communication restrictions were one of the most reported problems, especially around the Christmas period, in addition to the suspension of family visits and punishments for prisoners who reported their situation through telephone calls.
In particular, it cites political prisoners, Afro-descendants and opponents among the “most recurrent” categories of vulnerability with the highest number of violations.
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