SANTIAGO OF CUBA, January 1 (Beatón Miracles, APLO / www.cubanet.org)
- The prisoner Alberto Rodriguez Torres has been asking for medical attention
for more than a year, but the penitentiary authorities of Cárcel de
Boniato has refused.
Rodriguez has serious injuries in his legs caused by a self aggression act
in which he cut the tendons of both his legs, more than 18 months ago, which
also implies that he needs psychological attention.
According to the report of the political prisoner Eduardo the Castilian
Diaz, a prisoner in that prison located in the Santiago province of Cuba,
Rodriguez is seriously crippled.
In spite of their repeated requests, the civil employees of Cárcel de
Boniato penitentiary do not allow Rodriguez to go to the medical center to
receive the attention that his case requires.
In the Standard
Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners of the Unites Nations is
written: "Sick prisoners who require specialist treatment shall be
transferred to specialized institutions or to civil hospitals"
In Cuba there is the National Hospital for Inmates, known by the
abbreviations HNR, located at the Combinado del Este prison, in Havana, where
Rodriguez could be sent to be taken care of properly, and also any installation
of Ministry of Public Health for a surgical procedure.
The doctor that examined Rodriguez at the time of the injuries immediately
asked for a surgical procedure but the officials at the penitentiary refused to
comply, in spite of the existence of national laws covering human treatment for
prisoners.
According to the information from this prison, Rodriguez has to crawl to on
the floor to move.
This 29 years old inmate, lived on 19 5th St., Reparto Sagua,
municipality Julio Antonio Mella, Santiago de Cuba.
The Department of the Interior has never revealed the exact number of
prisoners and jails that there are in Cuba, and the number of deaths, suicides
and self aggression is unknown.
According to the testimony of ex-prisoners, self aggression is a form of
escape from the cruel treatment the inmates are subject to in Cuban jails.
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