La presa política cubana María Cristina Garrido está siendo sometida a tortura psicológica, al igual que sus hijos, denunció su hermana Angélica Garrido en un video enviado a ADN Cuba.
Angélica calificó la visita como “la más triste de todas”. Dijo que a María Cristina le habían prometido un traslado a un campamento con permisos de salida y así podría estar en los quince de sus gemelos, pero no se cumplió.
María Cristina fue condenada a siete años de prisión y Angélica a tres años, pena que ya cumplió, siendo liberada el pasado 10 de julio de 2024, un día antes del tercer aniversario de las manifestaciones.
Durante su tiempo en prisión, ambas hermanas han sufrido represalias y acoso por parte del régimen.
Angélica calificó la visita como “la más triste de todas”. Dijo que a María Cristina le habían prometido un traslado a un campamento con permisos de salida y así podría estar en los quince de sus gemelos, pero no se cumplió.
María Cristina fue condenada a siete años de prisión y Angélica a tres años, pena que ya cumplió, siendo liberada el pasado 10 de julio de 2024, un día antes del tercer aniversario de las manifestaciones.
Durante su tiempo en prisión, ambas hermanas han sufrido represalias y acoso por parte del régimen.
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00:00Hello, I am Angélica Garrido, political expression and conscience of the Cuban dictatorship.
00:08I want to send a greeting to the free world and to all Cubans who fight for a dignified life in freedom.
00:16I want to update you now on the situation of my sister Mare Cristina Garrido.
00:23Last October 3rd, I had the saddest visit of all.
00:30I tell you this because my sister has been tortured psychologically,
00:34just like her children, just like all her family,
00:37holding a hope that in October, for the 15 of the Gimauas,
00:42which will be the next October 10th, she will be at home.
00:48I don't ask for crumbs. No.
00:52This is not to ask for crumbs.
00:55Because what I demand is immediate freedom for my sister Mare Cristina.
01:01But the dictatorship, the penitentiary police, does not comply with the established regulations.
01:09They don't.
01:11Because my sister is the only prisoner who remains in prison,
01:15after the time of her sentence, that she should already be in another regime.
01:22And it is not like that.
01:25They told us that in August she was going to be in camp,
01:30and after the 60 days established, she would be at home with her children.
01:35This did not happen.
01:37And she lost that hope, and her children also lost it, who are minors.
01:44They are being emotionally destabilized because of the dictatorship,
01:52because of the security of the state.
01:56My brothers,
01:59the sanction of my sister Mare Cristina is of seven years,
02:02for crimes that have been denounced from the beginning,
02:06that have been fabricated by the security of the state,
02:08that we are innocent women.
02:13And with these denunciations and these accusations, it has been of no use.
02:18I turned three years old,
02:21and she would have already been three years old with me,
02:25of unfair imprisonment.
02:27However, the officer, Gervasio Escalona Escalona,
02:33shamelessly lied,
02:36giving a false testimony on the day of the trial,
02:39linking my sister Mare Cristina Garrido,
02:42in a tumultuous rite,
02:44which took place that night,
02:46which has nothing to do with the peaceful demonstration
02:50that took place in my town.
02:53A dignified and honorable demonstration.
02:57How we left leading that march in a dignified way,
03:01without a single man
03:03being able to criticize us.
03:07We did not violate any regulations.
03:10However, he shamelessly gave that false testimony,
03:15for which he was sentenced to four more years,
03:21with a demerit crime and an attack crime.
03:27After a while,
03:30the officer of the State Security, Frisha Castillo,
03:34declared in front of his superiors and in my presence,
03:38that this case had been dismissed
03:40because Mare Cristina Garrido
03:42had not left her house on July 11 at night
03:45and had participated in that tumultuous rite,
03:51because he was personally watching the house,
03:54that she did not leave.
03:56And because of that other lie,
03:59my sister is still unjustly imprisoned
04:02in the Western Women's Prison.
04:04Because of that other lie, and nothing happens.
04:08I do not ask for crumbs.
04:10I demand immediate freedom for Mare Cristina Garrido.
04:14A brave woman, a dignified woman,
04:17full of principles.
04:20A woman who has been subjected to physical torture,
04:23and you know it,
04:25in her arrest, so that she would shout,
04:27Long live Fidel!
04:29Who is still subjected to psychological torture,
04:32in which her children also suffer.
04:36I demand immediate freedom for Mare Cristina Garrido.
04:40Recently she also received,
04:43thanks to our Lord,
04:46a scholarship granted by the International Pen of Writers in Germany,
04:50where she and her younger children are given asylum.
04:54We have not yet received, my brothers,
04:57we have not yet received an answer
05:00from the German embassy in Havana,
05:02nor have we received any answer from the State Security.
05:08I ask you not to be discouraged.
05:11I ask you to continue to help us in the face of this injustice
05:15that has led my sister to spend four more years
05:18of unjust imprisonment.
05:21Four more years without rights
05:24in the dungeons of Cuban prisons.
05:29I repeat that I demand
05:32immediate freedom for Mare Cristina Garrido,
05:35political prisoner of conscience.