Sonia Garro’s Husband to Restart Hunger Strike

Sonia Garro's Husband to Restart Hunger Strike / Augusto Cesar San Martin
Posted on August 21, 2013

Havana, Cuba, 19 August 2013, Augusto César San Martín Albistur/
www.cubanet.org.- On a phone call this morning, from the Combinado del
Este prison, political prisoner Ramón Alejandro Muñoz González declared
that as of August 26 he would restart his hunger strike.

Ramón says that after writing letters to different government
departments about his undefined legal situation, and receiving no
replies, he has chosen to go on a hunger strike. He demands legal status
through a trial or immediate release.

"I have been in prison for one year and five months without a trial,
Muñoz commented. "Our imprisonment [his and his wife's] is against
established law. Or is it that people who think differently don't exist
in the law?" he added.

He explained his choice of 26 August because he wants to have final
contact with his family who should be informed of the step and the
objectives of the strike.

Ramón Alejandro said he had met with the director of the prison and he
confirmed the legal limbo in which he finds himself.

The political prisoner was arrested in 18 March 2012, along with his
wife, Lady in White Sonia Garro. Both are in a legally undefined status,
first accused of "terrorism," and some months later of "accessory to
murder."

Muñoz was arrested while blandishing a machete as a symbol of freedom on
the roof of his half-built house. From there he was taken by the special
police forces.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Augusto Cesar San Martin was born on April 20, 1967 in Havana. He was
assigned to the Interior Ministry and studied Criminal Sciences at the
Institute Martinez Brothers, where he graduated. Due to disagreements
with the military, he asked to be permanently separated from that body,
a request that was denied for one year. At that time he contacted the
peaceful opposition and was imprisoned in 1994. He was declared a
prisoner of conscience in 1996 and on his release from prison worked
with the Cuba Press agency between 1997-1999. In 2006 he founded the
José Lezama Lima Information Center.

From Cubanet

19 August 2013

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