Angel Santiesteban on Hunger Strike
Posted on April 11, 2013
The writer Ángel Santiesteban has declared a hunger strike and has been
confined to a punishment cell
Sunday, the authorities took him "by force" from La Lima prison, one of
the prisons that was preparing to receive a visit from Cuban and foreign
journalists.
"He wanted to see the journalists and tell them about his case," the
activist Antonio Rodiles said.
Santiesteban is now in Prison 1580, San Migeul de Padron, incommunicado
in a punishment cell.
The guards told his attorney, Amelia Rodriguez Cala, that the writer was
on "voluntary starvation" and refused to let her meet with him.
Santiesteban, condemned to five years in prison after a trial without
legal guarantees, could be suffering from skin cancer, according to the
doctors caring for him.
Translated from DiariodeCuba.com
11 April 2013
http://translatingcuba.com/angel-santiesteban-on-hunger-strike/
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