The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which is part of the Organization of Human Rights, will intervene with the Castro dictatorship on behalf of political prisoner Yordis García Fournier.
García, a youth political activist, in September was sentenced to 1 year in prison for "public disorder" after he and another activist, Izael Poveda Silva visited a compatriot of theirs in jail.
García is currently being held in an isolation cell at the Combinado de Guantánamo prison. From Oct. 11 to Nov. 1, García was on a hunger strike to demand the right to wear ia civilian clothes and not an inmate's uniform. And since Nov. 20, according to his brother, family members have not been able to visit him.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights asked in a letter that the Cuban dictatorsho "take the necessary measures to guarantee the life and physical integrity of Yordis García Fournier and provide adequate medical treatment in light of the standards international governing treatment of prisoners."
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