Ex-preso politico Gregorio Ariosa habla sobre las condiciones en la carcel

[PerlitaHabanera]

No hay ningun tipo de leyes que a estas personas los proteja. Si afuera no lo tienen, en la cárcel mucho menos. Lo que ha hecho fidel castro con cuba es una carcel, ha abusado los derechos de un ciudadano hasta no poder. Ya son 51 años de denuncias y hasta cuando el mundo va a hechar la cara para el otro lado?.

[hopeforamerika]

"thrown on the floor. I saw people shot to death. In the punishment pavillion, in front of me, I saw people receiving lashes with electrical wires. What I saw there was terrible. They called it the Camilo Cienguegos forced work plan. They took the prisoners out in the morning and brought them back at dusk. They were arranged in blocs and then they wounded them with anything, to such a degree that there were days when more than forty people were wounded with bayonets."

[hopeforamerika]

"I am wounded here, in my chest, in my hand, in my thigh. I was wounded with bayonets because I refused to work there under those conditions. They hit you for any reason. It was the most horrible thing I saw there, and after, in the punishment pavillions, prisoners on hunger strikes who were left there to die."

Interviewer: "Can you show us your wounds?"

GA shows 1:50 to 2:07 most of his wounds except one on his chest and thigh that he says are very deep.

2:13 "Well, horrible."

[hopeforamerika]

"But I was among those who suffered the least, because I know others whose heads were split open with bayonets, one who received 11 stitches on the head, another one whose femur was broken in the same way. The case of Madruga who died from a single bayonet blow. Another one who was shot to death. To describe all the abuses would be an interminable task."

[hopeforamerika]

GA: "What would you like to ask now?"

Interviewer: "You were in jail for 10 years. What kind of abuses were inflicted on you during that time?

GA: "The hardest thing I witnessed, the most inconceivable of all was the forced work plan in Isla de Pinos, where I saw people killed with my own eyes, struck to death with bayonet blows. People were taken to the bathrooms where lagoons were formed. There I saw people struck, wounded with bayonet blows, their heads split open, left there."