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For Immediate Release
Contact:
Julio Hernandez, Francisco De Armas
International Representatives, Christian Liberation Movement
(787) 549-1805
www.oswaldopaya.org
URGENT FROM HAVANA : OSWALDO PAYA DENOUNCES THE HORRID ATTACK AGAINST
ROLANDO JIMENEZ POSADA IN GUAYABO PRISON ON THE ISLE OF YOUTH
HAVANA, January 2008-(Oswaldo Payä, MCL/ Puenteinfocubamiami.org)- Cuban
political prisoner and prisoner of conscience, Rolando Jiménez Posada, was
vilely physically assaulted by a mob of highly dangerous common prisoners,
when he was transferred from his solitary confinement cell to another cell
he shares with common prisoners on December 31. As previously reported on
this incident in a previous statement, this attack was the result of
Rolando’s response to the journalist Lázaro Barreto with regards to
defamatory comments this so-called journalist had issued against Rolando in
a “roundtable” program.
As a result of this inhumane beating, Rolando’s face is disfigured and he
has lost almost all vision from one of his eyes, according to his wife
Lamasiel Gutiérrez Romero, an independent journalist.
Rolando is imprisoned with a 12 year sentence in Guayabo Prison, on the Isle
of Youth. He was a Cuban intelligence deputy and a prosecutor against narco-trafficking
crimes in his province and was discharged from his position when he became a
Varela Project organizer. Many of the highly dangerous common prisoners in
the prison cell that he was transferred to were indicted by Rolando during
his incumbency as a prosecutor.
This attack, as well as the one reported by us earlier against Antonio
(Tony) Díaz Sánchez, must be responded to with urgency by the international
community, Human Rights institutions, and government authorities in
countries that are in solidarity with defending the Cuban people. A whole
series of attacks against political prisoners is unfolding as the people are
beginning to increase their call for change while the regime’s officials do
not want to respond adequately to these calls.
Oswaldo J. Paya Sardiñas
Christian Liberation Movement (MCL)
For more information or to obtain a copy of the press release, please
contact: Julio Hernández or Francisco De Armas, International
Representatives, Christian Liberation Movement, (787) 549-1805, mcl2004jhs@yahoo.com,
fdamcl@cs.com
Given to the Information Bridge Cuba Miami by the Christian Liberation
Movement in the Exterior.
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