«Three tablespoons of rice and a little piece of fish», only that offers dams in Matanzas

The political dams Sissi Abascal Zamora and Saily Navarro Alvarez, imprisoned in the La Bellotex Women Prison, in Matanzas, are being subject to difficult living conditions and the pressures of state security.

The youngest member of the Ladies of Blanco, Abascal Zamora, 27 years old, has turned three years and three months in prison.

There «they have denied everything. They continue to call the negative prey and continue to deny all its benefits, all their rights, they are all violated,» his mother Annia Zamora Carmenate denounced.

The young opponent was sentenced to six years in prison for the alleged crimes of contempt, attack and public disorders, after their participation in the popular protests of July 11, 2021 in the town of Carlos Rojas, municipality of Jovellanos, in the Yumurino territory.

Zamora Carmenate said that in that women’s jail they can be up to three days without water. «They have to load the water because she is on a third floor and they have to climb with those cubes. One day Sissi slipped and suffered a foot wound. He is currently unfairly followed after the bars, with uniform and behind the locks, there in prison La Bellotex.»

Also in this prison the prominent opponent Saily Navarro is imprisoned, sentenced to eight years of deprivation of liberty for participating in the demonstration of the town of Perico.

His father, the opponent Félix Navarro, was released on January 18, 2025, but the activist continues to suffer all kinds of restrictions in prison, said Zamora Carmenate.

«Saily Navarro is presenting health problems, where they prevent his mother Sonia Álvarez from entering the visit, and denies him the medical diet for his health situation,» he denounced.

«Something that I want the world to know, apart from the repression, it is all that our prisoners are facing. Food is very worrying. To our prisoners, for example, at the moment in the Bellotex they are giving him three tablespoons of rice with a piece of tired fish, stinky and full of thorns, the bread was also lost. It is something very worrying because our prey can take anemia because the situation of all prisons can be For lack of medical and hungry attention, the situation of our political prisoners is very alarming at the moment, «Zamora warned.

The lady said that abuses have intensified against both political dams on orders for state security, because both Abascal and Navarro have repeatedly refused to undergo ideological rehabilitation.

«They are constantly violating the Criminal Code, because they should already be in a regime of lower severity, probation, many benefits that are denied, and we know that this is by the work of state security, which is who sends and manipulates everything,» emphasized the lady in Blanco.

Since 2024, the Cuban Prison Documentation Center warned about the reduction of food rations, poor food quality and the absence of strong dishes in inmates’ meals.

The entity described the food in the penalties as lousy and insufficient and referred to multiple complaints of rotten, poorly elaborate food, small rations, little variety of food and the theft of products by prison officers to feed the pigs that raise for personal benefit.