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HAVANA, June 11 (www.cubanet.org) - The director of Cuban prisons told
several prisoners of conscience that they would be subject to harsher terms from
now on. The director, General Rafael Tamayo, made the announcement during a
visit on May 18 to the maximum security prison at Agüica, in Matanzas
province.
The prisoners affected by the order, all confined at Agüica, are Miguel
Galbán Gutiérrez, Alexis Rodríguez Fernández, Manuel
Ubaldo González, Pablo Pacheco Ávila, and Roberto de Miranda.
The new confinement terms provide that the prisoners will kept in isolation
for two years, up from one year previously. They will also be entitled to
receive visits once every four months as opposed to once every three months;
they will be limited to a three-minute phone call a month, will have to wear the
prison uniform (which most prisoners of conscience refuse to wear) and will be
limited to 10 pounds in food packages from home, as opposed to the previous 40
pounds.
The prisoners let out word that they will persist in their rebellious
attitude until there is a political change in the country, and announced their
intention to engage in hunger strikes, one next July 13, in commemoration of the
tugboat sunk by Cuban border guards on that date, and another on August 5,
remembering a popular uprising in Havana.
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