Here is a full article with the play by play
Posted by on June 11, 2013
Sonia Garro has been rotting in a Cuban political prison since March of last year for no other crime other than speaking out against the dictatorial Castro regime. Sonia is a courageous black woman whose horrific plight could have been helped by just a mention of support and recognition by an influential fellow black woman, Beyonce, during her vacation in Cuba. But alas, Beyonce and her husband Jay-Z instead chose to lend their support to the apartheid dictatorship of the Castro brothers.
Lady in White and political prisoner Sonia Garro
suffering from further health problems
Sonia Garro, a member of the Ladies in White, and her husband Ramon Alejandro Munoz, president of the Independent Afro-Cuban Foundation, have been held in prison since March of 2012 after a violent arrest by the political police days before Pope Benedict’s visit to the island. The dictatorships’ authorities have not carried out a trial for either of the dissidents and they have been subjected to various inhumane treatments.
Most recently, the digital newspaper “Diario de Cuba” published an update on Garro’s health condition, which has worsened due to the fact that she was confined to a punishment cell for 10 days.
Opposition groups, individuals and members of the Ladies in White continuously demand the release of Garro and Munoz, but they are also in need of international solidarity.
Here’s the report by ‘Diario de Cuba’, in English (My Translation):
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Sonia Garro’s health worsens after spending 10 days in a punishment cell
The health of political prisoner Sonia Garro, who has been in prison without a trial for 1 year and 3 months, has worsened after the authorities of the Guatao Women’s Prison sent her to a punishment cell for 10 days, according to a denouncement made to “Diario de Cuba” by Berta Soler, leader of the Ladies in White.
According to Soler, two common female prisoners – used by the jailers as “provokers” to cause incidents- tried to involve Garro in a “riot” where several of the prisoners burned mattresses and left 18 injured in another Detachment.
Seeing that this did not yield the desired results, they tried to involve Garro, who was watching television at the time, trying to make her become angry by offending her. They demanded that she change the channel and that she sign a paper with slogans against the government.
Soler said that Garro, a member of the Ladies in White, asked one of the jailers to intervene, but this person simply responded “solve the problem on your own”.
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