Ariel Sigler Amaya
More than six years in the Castro gulag has taken a terrible toll on the health of political prisoner Ariel Sigler Amaya. Earlier this month, prison officials relented and transferred Sigler to a hospital in Cienfuegos, but the vaunted Cuban health care system has so far done him no good.
His brother Juan Francisco Sigler Amaya tells Radio Martí that Ariel is suffering from a variety of ailments, including high fever and low blood pressure, and that doctors have been unable to improve his condition. That's probably because, his brother said, because they aren't really trying.
Sigler, co-founder with other family members of the Movimiento Independiente Opción Alternativa, was arrested during the "black spring" of 2003, and sentenced to 25 years in prison.
More than six years in the Castro gulag has taken a terrible toll on the health of political prisoner Ariel Sigler Amaya. Earlier this month, prison officials relented and transferred Sigler to a hospital in Cienfuegos, but the vaunted Cuban health care system has so far done him no good.
His brother Juan Francisco Sigler Amaya tells Radio Martí that Ariel is suffering from a variety of ailments, including high fever and low blood pressure, and that doctors have been unable to improve his condition. That's probably because, his brother said, because they aren't really trying.
Sigler, co-founder with other family members of the Movimiento Independiente Opción Alternativa, was arrested during the "black spring" of 2003, and sentenced to 25 years in prison.
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