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CIEGO DE AVILA, June 3 (Mirley Delgado Bombino, APLA / www.cubanet.org) -
Independent journalist Léxter Téllez Castro, 27, jailed since
March 4, has embarked on a civil disobedience campaign to protest mistreatment
of prisoners in Canaleta prison, where he is being held.
Téllez, the director of the Ciego de Ávila Free Press Agency,
(Agencia de Prensa Libre Avileña), was arrested as he was covering an
anti-government protest on behalf of another independent journalist in front of
a Ciego de Ávila hospital.
Téllez has refused to take the food served by prison authorities,
calling it meager and of poor quality, and is only eating whatever his mother
takes for him on visiting days.
In addition, Téllez is sleeping on a board, saying the mattresses
provided are made of nylon filled with untreated sea sponges, which cause rashes
on the prisoners’ skin.
Téllez is asking for a fast to protest the precarious conditions in
which prisoners are held and the violation of their human rights at the prison.
"The Cuban government refuses to allow an inspection of its prisons by
the United Nations Commission on Human Rights," says Téllez in a
note smuggled out of prison.
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