If you run a gulag, how do you break a political prisoner's hunger strike?
If you run the Castro gulag, you turn on the torture, you turn off the water.
That was how the dictatorship responded in 2010 to Orlando Zapata Tamayo, denying him water and hastening the effects of a hunger strike that ended with his death. It was nothing less than murder.
And that his how the goons have responded to Andy Frometa Cuenca, a political prisoner on hunger strike since April 16 to demand his release and that of all political prisoners in Cuba. Frometa, a member of the John Paul 11 Cuban Liberation, Reconciliation and Peace Movement, has served 12 years of a 47-year sentence for various "crimes."
Frometa's wife, Mareisy Columbié López, told Cuba Democratic Directorate that guards at the Guantanamo Provincial Prison on May 4 again transferred him from the infirmary to a punishment cell, where he is being denied water.
That "constitutes torture," Columbié said.
Columbié is calling on the international community to highlight her husband's plight in order to save his life.
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