11 J Barbara Isaac Roque, mother of a political prisoner LISTANI RODRIGUEZ ISAACIt was reported that her daughter became pregnant during a wedding visit with her husband, a political prisoner, and was forced to have an abortion.
“Listani and her husband, after years of waiting to have a baby, had a meeting at the wedding hall, and to the surprise of both, she gave birth to the baby she so desperately wanted. “She is almost seven weeks pregnant,” the inmate's mother said in statements to the organization. Prisoners Guardians (PD).
State security officials from the Guamajal prison in Villa Clara allegedly forced the young woman to have an abortion.
“She had never been pregnant in her life and by chance she would get pregnant at this bad time and she didn't want to take it out. He was six weeks old, almost seven. And he is not given good food there. There is no medicine, nothing,” the mother of the political prisoner condemned.
In this situation, state security pressures the inmate to have an abortion.
“Now state security wants to force her to take the baby out. She said she doesn't want to take the baby out. She feels so bad. There's no gravinol for anesthesia. There's no medicine. They're not treating her because they want to force her to take it out,” he said.
“She's scared for her life, that they're going to force her to take it out, that something's going to happen to her. And I'm scared for her life,” he added.
Barbara Isaac learned the news through a phone call from her other daughter, Lydiani, who is a political prisoner.
Listani and Lidiani are 25 years old and have three children.
Two of the three sisters have been jailed and are being held at the Kumajal Women's Prison in Santa Clara. They serve eight years in prison July 11, 2021 for participating in the anti-government protest.
On July 15, 2021, officials They arrested Listani Rodriguez Isaac and his sister LidianiFor his peaceful participation in the protest on 11 J.
The sisters, both teaching assistants, had no criminal record at the time of their arrest. However, this does not matter to the Plaistas Municipal Prosecutor's Office He demanded that they be sentenced to 10 years in prison For offenses like public disorder, contempt and assault.
In March 2022, it was announced that he had received an eight-year prison sentence.
The United Nations recently defended its cause in a letter of indictment sent by the four Special Rapporteurs and the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.
The two political prisoners are members of the Independent Union of Yorubas of Cuba, an independent Santeria community.
