Yoruba leader’s wife in prison asks for international solidarity to free him

Cuban political prisoner Donaida Pérez Pasiro, released last January, made an urgent call to human rights organizations to demand the release of her husband, the religious leader Loreto Hernández García, who is very sick.

Pérez Paseiro was one of the first released after the Cuban government promised Pope Francis that he would release more than 500 people sentenced for various crimes, but her husband remains in prison despite her delicate health condition.

Now than the releases have been resumed For the Government, after several weeks of interruption, the political dam asked Amnesty International, Yorubas religious organizations and other human rights groups, which intervene before the Cuban authorities in favor of the departure of the captivity of the religious leader.

Her husband, she denounced, suffers from acute bronchial asthma that has been aggravated by the deplorable conditions in which she survives in jail for men in Guamajal, in the province of Villa Clara.

«I don’t think your health endors Cuban Observatory of Human Rights.

The political prisoner also suffers from a heart disease, is diabetic and hypertensive.

Pérez Pasiro said that the Cuban authorities do not forgive her husband for being the brother of the exiled opposition Jorge Luis García Pérez, «Antúnez», and having dragged a crowd to the historic antigubernamental manifestation of July 11, 2021 in Placetas, Villa Clara, where he resides.

Hernández García, a member of the Independent Association Yorubas Libres de Cuba, was sentenced to 7 years in jail for his participation in the protests of that day that shook much of Cuba.

In a recent interview with Martí News, Pérez Pasiro He expressed fear for her husband’s life. «I feel they don’t want to give him freedom to die in prison,» he said.

«Please, help me save my husband,» said the woman, who also requested freedom for all Cuban political prisoners.

The Cuban Observatory of Human Rights said on Saturday that At least 14 political prisoners have been released Since the process was reactivated on February 27. According to testimonies of the releases, dozens of common inmates have also left prison.

Maricela Sosa Ravelo, vice president of the Supreme Court, said last January, in reference to the agreement reached with the Vatican for the release of 553 people, which «it is not an amnesty or an pardon» but of «benefits of early release.»