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Political prisoner decries prison conditions
CIEGO DE AVILA, Cuba - June 8 (Luis Esteban
Espinosa, Jóvenes sin Censura / www.cubanet.og)
- Political prisoner Virgilio Mantilla decried
poor conditions in the Kilo[meter] 9 prison
in Camagüey province where he is serving
a seven year sentence.
Mantilla, in a telephone call on May 30
to the Cuban Foundation for Human Rights
said authorities have been serving rotten
ground meat for more than 20 days in a row
and that prisoners have been protesting.
He also said most prisoners have skin rashes
from the proliferation of bed bugs, and
that there are leaks of unsanitary water
in many of the cells.
Mantilla was the National Secretary for
Attention to Political Prisoners of the
Human Rights Foundation before being sentenced
for protesting the police beating of independent
journalist Jesús Álvarez.
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