Joana Fernández Nuñez describes how her father's hunger strike persuaded prison officials to let him have access to some religious publications, via Miscelaneas de Cuba:
The morning of Tuesday September 23, the authorities of Canaleta Prison in Ciego de Avila handed over to Adolfo Fernández Sainz the periodicals with religious content which had been withheld from him since last Tuesday.The prisoners of conscience Fernández Sainz, Pedro Arguelles Morán and Antonio Dias Sanchez brought to a successful end the hunger strike which they had undertaken since Friday, September 19.
Julia Nunez, wife of the independent journalist Adolfo Fernández Sainz, received confirmation via a telephone call from the prisoner this Tuesday afternoon.
We would like to thank all the organizations and/or persons who supported us in spreading the information about this situation, and who showed their support and solidarity to us. Hunger strikes are an extreme last resort used by honorable men when they are left no other recourse to appeal the vexations they are dealt. Their results on the health of the strikers are irreversible, as well as the suffering of their families.
The original cause of protests such as these arise from the unjust imprisonment these members of the Cuban civil society have been victims of since March 2003, from the ridiculous sentences, the hundreds of kilometers of separation from their families, and all other humiliations that they have been subject to day after day for the last five and a half years.
I call upon the government of Raul Castro to restore the freedom of the Cuban prisoners of conscience of the Black Spring who are still incarcerated, as well as all Cuban political prisoners.
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