Madrid/The unbiased journalist and political prisoner Carlos Michael Morales has ended the starvation strike that he had been doing for nearly a month. In accordance with a Baptist minister Mario Felix Leonard This Tuesday on his social networks, Morales introduced him from the jail room of the Villa Clara Regional Hospital, after he came upon {that a} trial was scheduled for this Friday, July 19.
The physician informed the journalist, Lleonart says, that he wouldn’t permit him to attend as it’s now, however “in his course of there are such a lot of irregularities and violations that he desires the chance to deliver himself to be current as a result of he hopes for his freedom. .”
A number of teams reported weeks in the past on that Carlos Michael Morales, who was admitted to the medical unit in Guamajal jail, in Santa Clara, in “excessive hazard.” The activist, who had already spent two years and 10 months in jail for demonstrating in Caibarién, Villa Clara, through the mass protests on July 11, 2021 (11J), and who printed in March this yr, he was arrested once more on Could 4. In two months he has gone on two starvation strikes.
The physician informed the journalist that he wouldn’t permit him to attend as he’s now.
After a number of incidents of police harassment, Morales was arrested throughout a name on the Caibarién Prison Investigation Unit. He instantly started his first starvation strike, which he known as off on Could 22, pending a solution to his habeas corpus offered by his lawyer.
In a letter submitted by Morales after that first strike, he reported that after extreme chest ache, he was denied medical assist and, as a substitute, obtained a beating from the unit commander. The incident resulted in him being rushed to hospital in crucial situation.
Virtually a month later, on June 19, the unbiased journalist started a starvation strike.
The information that Morales’ criticism was printed got here on the identical day that the authorized group Cubalex printed it The report Demise in custody in Cubawhich analyzes the deaths that occurred on the Island in custody and the violent patterns dedicated by the safety forces between January 2022 and January 2024.
In complete, the NGO recorded 56 deaths, most of them prisoners (34), but additionally detainees in police stations (9), recruits for obligatory navy service (11) and even 2 femicides .
The primary causes of demise in custody recorded by Cubalex had been denial of medical care, violence, suicide, “excessive disciplinary measures,” starvation strikes, office accidents, and neglect by authorities. The doc reveals, the group says, “a scientific sample of neglect, abuse and lack of accountability by the Cuban State, exacerbated by the dearth of enough, unbiased and clear investigations, which promise freedom to those that are accountable.
