Political prisoners in Cuba suffer torture ranging from attacks to deprivation of sleep, liquids, food and medical care, reported a report by the Prisoners Defenders organization published on Tuesday.
The study was prepared from a random sample of 101 political prisoners, and relies on first-hand sources in direct contact with the defendants, such as cellmates or prison mates, and first-degree relatives, the NGO explained.
According to data from this Madrid-based organization, there are 1,167 political prisoners in Cuba.
Following the protests against the Cuban regime that erupted in July 2021, “Cuba has exhibited the highest rates of repression recorded in decades with thousands of arbitrary arrests, hundreds of convicts of conscience, as well as hundreds of reports of torture,” states the report, which was delivered on Tuesday to the Committee against UN Torture.
Prisoners Defenders cites 15 types of torture inflicted on political prisoners, such as “deprivation of medical care”, “highly uncomfortable, harmful, degrading and prolonged postural patterns”, “solitary confinements of punishment”, “physical assault”, “deprivation of fluids and/or food” and “ sleep deprivation”.
Of the 101 prisoners studied, three were minors at the time of arrest.
“The victim who accumulates the greatest number of types of torture is precisely a minor under the age of 17, Jonathan Torres Farrat,” says the NGO.
“On one occasion”, Torres Farrat “was handcuffed to a hanging fence, in a cold room, and subsequently beaten. He was confined to a cold room for demanding that he not be beaten anymore,” according to the report.
“Jonathan's mother, Barbara Farrat Guillén, has been repeatedly barred from seeing her son, and she has even been threatened with Jonathan's physical integrity in retaliation against the complaints he makes,” the document adds.
The report states that there are dozens of prisoners with dual nationality, but that “except the United States, the rest of the countries, Spain, Canada and Germany, to give the three examples, have left their citizens without any protection so far”.
(With information from AFP)
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