Prisoner put in solitary confinement after wife falls ill

Prisoner put in solitary confinement after wife falls ill

CAMAGUEY, Cuba, April 12 (Fernando Tabares / www.cubanet.org) -
Dissident prisoner Orencio Rafael Guerra Ramírez was placed in solitary
confinement last weekend after demanding medical attention for wife, who
lost consciousness after falling ill during a visit to the Cerámica Roja
prison, according to reports from another prisoner.

René Montes de Oca Martij, general secretary of the Cuban Pro Human
Rights Party, said in a note smuggled out of the prison that the
incident occurred April 9.

When Guerra Ramírez was unable to revive his wife, Quirenia Padrón
Pérez, he asked State Security agents to move her to the prison's
infirmary or to a hospital. When arrangements were being made to take
her to a hospital, the prisoner was told the only means of
transportation was a cart pulled by a pair of oxen that was used to haul
garbage from the prison.

Guerra Ramírez started to shout anti-government slogans and was taken to
a solitary confinement cell.

Hours later his wife was taken to the Amalia Simoni Hospital. The note
did not say what type of transportation was used.

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