State Of Health Of Cuban Prisoner Of Conscience Dr Jose Luis Garcia Paneque Is Becoming More Critical

State Of Health Of Cuban Prisoner Of Conscience, Dr. Jose Luis Garcia
Paneque, Is Becoming More Critical

2006-06-06

Common prisoner threatens him to death

June 5, 2006. Cuban phsycian and prisoner of conscience, Dr. José Luis
García Paneque, continues in the hospital of the Prison of "Las Mangas"
in Bayamo, along with common prisoners, suffering from chronic bloody
diarrhea and persistent ulcerative colitis as a consequence of the
Syndrome of Intestinal Malabsorption that he has developed since his
imprisonment in 2003.

His wife, Yamilet Llanes Labrada, who travels from Las Tunas every 45
days to said prison, said that Dr. Garcia Paneque’s health has worsened
since he was transferred on November 8, 2005, from the Hospital of
Combinado del Este in Havana, where he also suffered rectal bleeding.
“His deteriorated body doesn’t reach the weight of 50 kilograms (110
lbs.)”, explained the imprisoned doctor’s wife, "he feels very tired,
his blood pressure remains at 90 over 50, the spoiled prison food he has
consumed has caused and worsened the diarrhea. My husband has not seen
the sun for months and he is forced to endure extreme psychological
pressure.”

On Monday, May 15, 2006, Yamilet Llanes had to request a meeting with
the prison director. A common prisoner around 20 to 26 years old with
whom Dr. Garcia Paneque has had several serious arguments, threatened to
kill the physician after having thrown his clothes in a latrine full of
excrement. Prison authorities informed Yamilet that they were not aware
these events had occurred.

Dr. Garcia Paneque’s four children are psychologically affected by their
father’s imprisonment and by the constant harassment they must sustain.
Three times a week, groups of elderly Cubans cry out governmental
slogans just two houses away from García Paneque's home. Sheila, the
eldest child, 15 years old, is barred from studying computer technology
in spite of her high school grades, and she is being pressured to sign
up with the Union of Communist Youth, an organization she refuses to
join. When José Alejandro, 9 years old, visits the prison he frequently
compares the girth of his arm to the girth of his sick father’s arm.

On December 9, 2005, Yamilet Llanes Labrada requested before the Cuban
Ministry of the Interior that a medical parole be granted to her
husband. As she still awaits a response after being remitted to the
Cuban Ministry of Justice and later to the District Attorney’s Office,
Dr. García Paneque’s health turns more critical each passing day. “José
Luis’s case is very difficult and complicated; he is so sick…”, declared
the wife of this Cuban prisoner of conscience.

Yamilet De Los Ángeles Llanes Labrada

Calle Emilio González #63, entre Eliades Ávila y José Licea, Reparto
Aguilera.
Las Tunas, Cuba

Tel: +53-31-42910

Testimony given over the telephone from Cuba to the Coalition of
Cuban-American
Women in the United States / LAIDA CARRO. Tel: 305-662-5947 Fax:
305-740-7323 / Email: Joseito76@aol.com

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