Félix Navarro thanks an Inter -American Commission for its protection for the victims of the Cuban regime

The Political Expritioner Félix Navarro, recently released after the Vatican negotiations with the Cuban regime, thanked the Inter -American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) for the surveillance and accompaniment of his case.

By efforts of the Cuba initiative decides and the Foundation for Pan American Democracythe IACHR granted Navarro a precautionary measure of protection that became effective on July 28, 2022.

In this sense, Navarro wrote that he appreciates the interest of the continental entity in “the excesses of those who seized Cuba and his people, through force and have made it the stercolero of the Antilles”.

The political prisoner said that «despite being a man with more than 68 years of age,» and Diabetic, at the time of his imprisonment, the prison authorities kept him in an «not appropriate» regime, meanwhile, the common was common Lack of the medication indicated for your illness.

“I was not favored with the alleged benefits of criminal reeducation, which is known as the two -month sales every year, in retaliation for my contestant position denouncing the abuses and abuses of power, against the criminal population, by classes and Officers of the Ministry of Interior, ”added the opposition leader, president of the Democracy Party Pedro Luis Boitel.

During his imprisonment in the Agüica prison, by Matanzas, Navarro denounced, repeatedly, through telephone calls, the abuse of power of prison commanders, as well as the abuses they committed against the criminal population.

“I was a victim of restrictions on my phone calls; Which was fulfilled by punishing the 18 members of my cubicle, reducing the call time of 20 minutes every week, only 5 minutes and with a guard next to, who warned that, if he addressed the issue of any complaint, in that moment hung the phone and until the following week. ”

This limitation was active for ten months, until it was transferred to another area of ​​confinement, Navarro emphasizes in his letter to the IACHR.

He added that he was a victim of ill -treatment by the head of the penitentiary establishment, Lieutenant Colonel Emilio Cruz Rodríguez, who says «everyone fear» and for that reason he commits with total impunity excesses against prisoners, despite the complaints of relatives of inmates and even the military themselves.

“The Military Prosecutor’s Office Matanzas region, does not course any of such complaints, much less those of the G-2, whom they call: Department of State Security, or Political Police. In the Agüica prison, there is a regulation and a code of laws designed by Lieutenant Colonel Emilio Cruz Rodríguez and carried out by his lieutenant, the greatest pedroso Sotolongo yoslén, ”says the political prisoner, sentenced to nine years of deprivation of liberty for their relationship with the protests of July 11, 2021.