CUBA NEWS
March 10, 2003

Prisioner Antúnez declined procedure in medical evaluation

Information Bridge Cuba Miami

(PLACETAS, Cuba, March 4, Puenteinfocubamiami.org) - The political prisoner Jorge Luis Garcia Perez (Antúnez) refused a testicular varicose vein surgery as prescribed in a medical evaluation performed by prison doctors.

According to an information given yesterday by his sister Berta Antúnez Pernet, a prisoner told her that prison authorities refused to give Antunez his medications. "Another prisoner sent me a note telling me to show up at the prison for my brother was going to be operated on", she stated.

Berta Antunez immediately went to the prison and confronted prison authorities but was told that Antunez had refused treatment as stated in a medical evaluation. According to the evaluation, Antunez required a testicular varicose surgery, procedure indicated to relieve testicular pain and also for those suffering from infertility.

Berta, who has not seen or spoken to her brother since January 5, demanded the return of her brother's medications but officials stated that Antunez has donated the medication to another prisoner that needed them.

Berta Antunez Pernet stated that the family was pleased her brother refused the surgical procedure, for the prison system has always refused to give her brother any medical attention. "How come they keep on denying him medical attention for the nodule in his lung?"

"We don't trust whatever it is they want to do to him at this late stage", concluded Berta.

Jorge Luis García Pérez, a young black male, also known as Antúnez, is from Placetas, Villa Clara. In 1990 was accused of the presumed crime of "Oral Enemy Propaganda" and was convicted to 15 years in jail. Confined to punishment cells in countless occasions, in different prisons throughout the Island, is presently confined to a punishment cell in the Ariza prison in Cienfuego Antúnez declined medical evaluation in the prison Las Mangas, Bayamo.

Testimony of Berta Antúnez Pernet, sister of the political prisoner Jorge Luis García Pérez Antunez, given from Placetas, on the 3rd day of March 2004. Recording, transcription and translation by the Information Bridge Cuba Miami. March 4, 2004.

 

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