Cuban opponent Félix Navarro, leader of the “Pedro Luis Boitel” Party for Democracy, is sick with COVID-19 in the Agüica prison in Matanzas, where he is serving a nine-year sentence for participating in the 11J protests.
Human rights activist Marcel Valdés said that the political prisoner’s wife, Sonia Álvarez, confirmed the news.
Valdés blamed the Cuban dictatorship for what could happen to it, when reports of the lack of medical care and medicine suffered by the sick in Cuban prisons have emerged.
Navarro had already been infected with Covid-19 at the end of July 2021, a few days after being arrested for demonstrating on the so-called 11J.
Belonging to the group of 75 activists, intellectuals and journalists imprisoned during the so-called Black Spring in 2003, Navarro and his daughter Saily were arrested on July 12 at the police station in the Matanzas town of Perico, where they reside, when they presented themselves to Find out about the members of your group arrested the day before in the popular protests.
The 68-year-old opponent and the young Lady in White were taken to trial in januaryand then sentenced to nine and eight years in prisonrespectively, for the alleged crimes of attack, public disorder and contempt.
The man from Matanzas continues to be detained, as was the case after his arrest in 2003, during the repressive wave of the Black Spring, when he spent eight years behind bars, until a series of negotiations between the governments of Cuba and Spain and the Catholic Church achieved his release. of the 75 prisoners.
Unlike most, Navarro did not go into exile with his family and decided to remain on the island and continue defending his ideas.
Recently the government of The United States ruled in favor of this family and asked that they be released.
“Félix Navarro and his daughter Sayli were sentenced to 9 and 8 years in prison for their peaceful participation in the 11J protests. They do not deserve jail, they deserve to live free from repression,” the US Embassy in Cuba wrote on Twitter.
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