Young Camagüeyana Mayelín Rodríguez denounced in prison

The political prisoner Mayelín Rodríguez Prado received a beating at the hands of his jailers in the provincial prison of Camagüey, denounced activist Lizandra Villamen in an audio shared on social networks by the Cuban Observatory of Human Rights.

«They fell into blows and took her out of the cell, because the girl was asking for change of galley and the boss ignored her,» said the activist.

Rodríguez Prado, known in networks such as La Chamaca del Chamaco, was sentenced to 15 years in jail For his participation in the popular protests of Nuevitas, in Camagüey, in 2022. accused of «enemy propaganda of a continuous nature» and «sedition», he received the highest penalty among the protesters who were prosecuted for that cause.

The 24 -year -old girl has argued that the charges against her were manipulated by the Prosecutor’s Office, who denied the physical abuse of police officers against a minor denounced in a video shared by her on her social networks.

Last January, the Camaguey political prisoner told Independent Legal Consulting Cubalex that inmates in «Farm 5», as popularly call the penitentiary center in which they are imprisoned, live in conditions of extreme precariousness, without access to drinking water or medical attention, and with insufficient food.

The popular protests of the town of Nuevitas occurred between August 18 and 19, 2022. During the demonstration, agents of the Revolutionary National Police (PNR), the fast -response brigades and the special troops of the Ministry of Interior, known as black berets, used excessive force against protesters, which was documented in numerous videos disclosed in social networks, including the published by Rodriguez Prado.