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Luis Campos Corrales handcuffed and
thrown from the second floor of the prison
(HAVANA, Cuba, November 2 / Puenteinfocubamiami.org)
- In October 20, Luis Campos Corrales, political
prisoner and member of the Democratic Party
November 30 "Frank País",
who is almost blind due to a bacterial infection
was handcuffed and then thrown from the
second floor of the prison Combinado del
Este in Havana, by the officer in charge
who goes by the name of Leonel with the
aid of another prison official.
Campos Corrales was able to denounce the
event to his mother Gregoria Corrales over
the telephone, this Saturday, November 1,
when he was granted permission to call to
inquire about her health for she had eye
surgery last Monday. He also told his mother
that he was presently sleeping in the floor
under some stairs in an unknown detachment
at El Combinado del Este.
In the evening hours of November 2, Mrs.
Corrales placed a telephone call to Ada
Kaly Márquez, National Coordinator
of the November 30 Party to let her know
of her intentions going to the prison at
the risk of loosing her sight and not leaving
the premises until she saw her son. Mrs.
Corrales was persuaded from going while
she recuperates and members of the November
30 would try and get clarification as to
the present state of the health of Campos
Corrales.
According to information received by correspondents
of Lux Info Press in Havana, after this
incident with Campos Corrales, officials
at Combinado del Este also dragged through
the floor of the prison the political prisoner
Orlando Zapata Tamayo of the Alternative
Republican Movement in Havana and member
of the Civic Movement Committee of the Varela
Project, who was unjustly sentenced to 18
years in prison in the recent wave of repression
that began last March. They left Tamayo's
back full of lacerations only because he
was requesting medical attention.
Luis Campos Corrales is serving a 25 year
sentence in the Cause #37 of 1994 for the
supposed crime of piracy.
Reported by the correspondents
of Lux Info Press in Havana, Gilberto Figueredo
Alvarez and Ada Kaly Márquez, National
Coordinator of the Democratic Party November
30 " Frank País ". For
the Information Bridge Cuba Miami, given
on November 2, 2003.
Urgent action of alert for the life
of Rafael Ibarra Roque and Pedro Argüelles
Morán, on a hunger strike at Combinado
del Este
(HAVANA, Cuba, November 2 / Puenteinfocubamiami.org)
- Last October 16, Rafael Ibarra Roque,
president of Honor of The Democratic Party
November 30 "Frank País",
was brutally beaten, shackled and dragged
through the prison floor then locked up
in a punishment cell in the much feared
" Pavilion 47" at the Prison Combinado
del Este in Havana at which time he began
an indefinite hunger strike.
According to a clandestine note taken out
of prison by the political prisoner Adrián
Alvarez Arencibia, Ibarra Roque is presently
"plantado", wearing only underpants,
in a hunger strike, demanding to be separated
from the common prisoners who constantly
threaten and abuse him under the orders
of the penal officials.
In another paragraph of the note, Arencibia
declares that all of Ibarra's personal belongings
have fallen into the hands of common prisoners
whom continue to constantly threaten his
personal integrity.
According to the note, that same joined
the hunger strike Pedro Argüelles Morán,
the editor of Cooperativa Avilena de Periodistas
Independientes (CAPI), and one of the 26
independent journalists arrested and unjustly
sentenced to 20 years in prison in the last
wave of repression which began last March.
Argüelles Mora is also in a punishment
cell in Pavilion 47 demanding also to be
treated justly and be separated from the
common population for his physical integrity
is also in danger.
Today, October 2, 2003, sources confirmed
to correspondents of Lux Info Press in Havana
that the health of both prisoners has deteriorated
seriously. They are extremely dehydrated
and require intravenous alimentation. Prison
authorities have denied any medical attention
to both prisoners. They both languish in
a punishment cell without medical attention
and not knowing when is day or night, at
the mercy of the officials of El Combinado
del Este.
Ibarra Roque is the president of Democratic
Party 30 of November "Frank País"
and was unjustly accused of a presumed sabotage,
according in Causes 485 and 589 of 1994.
He was sentenced to 20 years in prison and
after being confined in several prisons
throughout the Island and is presently in
El Combinado del Este, a penitentiary of
maximum security in Havana.
The organizations requesting an Urgent
Action of Alert on behalf of these political
prisoners in Cuba are, The Democratic Party
November 30 "Frank País",
The Pedro Luis Boitel Political Presidio,
Pedro Luis Boitel Civic Resistance Movement,
National Council of Civil Rights and The
Jorge Mas Canosa Local Political Presidio.
Reported by the correspondents
of Lux Info Press in Havana Gilberto Figueredo
Álvarez and Ada Kaly Márquez,
also, National Coordinator of The Democratic
Party November 30 "Frank País".
For the Information Bridge Cuba Miami, given
on November 2, 2003.
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