Cuban political prisoner Ariel Sigler Amaya is a physical shadow of his former self.
When he was imprisoned in 2003, the former boxing champion weighed 205 pounds.
Today, he weighs 122 pounds, his body ravaged by numerous illnesses and afflictions that are part of life in the Castro gulag, and the malignant neglect of his captors. He has been confined to a wheelchair for nine months, serving a virtual, drip-by-drip, death sentence, as the Castro dictatorship ignores pleas for his release.
"I think this is a destruction planned by State Security," Amaya said in a telephone interview with independent journalist Juan Carlos Gonzalez Leiva published this week. "This is obvious: They are killing me little by little."
Anyone who ignores Sigler's pleas, and those of his family for his release so he can get the medical care he needs, is doing the same.
Read the rest of the interview, in Spanish, here.
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