The Castro dictatorship — specifically, its prison guards — is never lacking for ways to turn up the torture of those imprisoned because of their political beliefs. Here are a few examples:
- Political prisoner Fabio Prieto Llorente, an inmate at the El Guayabo prison on the Isle of Pines, was denied a visit by his granddaughter. His daughter and niece were allowed to see Prieto, but prison officials allow only two people to visit a prisoner every two months. Prieto, who suffers from a variety of health ailments, is constantly harassed and threatened by guards and common prisoners doing their bidding.
- Political prisoner Alexander García Lima, an inmate at the Agüica prison in Matanzas, was denied his supposed right to use a prison telephone.
- Political prisoner Osvaldo González Montesino, an inmate at the youth provincial prison in Santa Clara, reports that guards use their full repertoire of repression — bad food, bad medical care, limited access to sunlight and worst of all, regular beatings delivered by the prison's "re-educators."
The guards are only doing the dirty work ordered by the Castro brothers and their dictatorship. But they, too, one day soon will be held to account for their crimes against their fellow Cubans, and against humanity.
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