Since August 14, I was detained for 6 days in terrible
conditions in the State Security Unit of Palma Soriano
The second official of the police did not stop telling me "you're
going to die there in the dungeon," to which I never answered
I was sharing a cell with another detainee
There is no running water, you have to defecate
right there and feces spill all over the cell
All 6 days I stayed with the same clothes and no hygiene of any kind
The lack of hygiene in the mattress is such that it is necessary to
sleep on the floor so as not to contract other more serious diseases
Later I was in the Detention Centre of Versailles, a torture centre
called Provincial Unit of Criminal Instruction, still on hunger strike
I was alone first, and later mixed with other alleged inmates who were
informants trying to tell me to make an agreement with the State Security
In Versalles I was 22 days The treatment was terrible
The second official of the Unit forced me to walk
down the centre of the corridor, not using the
walls, when I could barely stand with the
weakness after more than 20 days of hunger strike
They gave me water one day and others did not, the sheets barely
changed, without ventilation, in a dark cell with no light
They served me all kinds of extreme appetizing
foods to get me to stop the hunger strike,
meals that are never seen in the detention centre, neither the people have access to
meals that are never seen in the detention centre, neither the people have access to
I told them to give that food to other prisoners, but they told me that this
food cannot be given to prisoners, to which I asked if I was not a prisoner
Yes they put me in a cold room
The last days there they put me in what we call a cold room, that is to say, rooms
very humid, very cold and dark, in spite of my state of almost 30 days in hunger
strike, with tremendous mosquitoes"
Wilman Villar Mendoza died in 2012 precisely in the same circumstances because he acquired pneumonia in these cells of the centre
When I had been there for more than 20 days, I lost conscience on September 1st
I recovered conscience in the Juan Bruno Zayas Hospital
One security officer and one medical officer,
Lieutenant Colonel, when I refused to eat,
ordered me to take off from me all the medical assistance and send me back to Versalles
After being in Versalles again, they send me to the Aguadores prison
I had been on a hunger strike for 28 days
In Aguadores they did not want me to stay, and
they sent me immediately to the Boniato prison
To Boniato I arrived on a Tuesday, 22 days
after Versailles, I do not remember the date
They put me in a dark dungeon
I asked for water and they did not give it to me, for almost a whole day
They gave me water later, at 6 in the afternoon, less than half a glass,
and until 6 in the morning of the next day they did not give me any more
Twice a day they gave me half a glass of water
All this was ordered by Major Alexei Bell de Boniato
Another officer, Captain Alexei Atié, allowed me to speak with
another UNPACU political prisoner, as I asked him, but to eat
They told me that if I did not eat I would go into an
isolation cell in the punishment area of the Boniato prison
I refused to eat
They put me there, in this punishment isolation cell, and left me in shorts
(underwear), with no more clothes, two days, after 30 days of hunger strike
There is no water there, not to wash or anything
I was not allowed any hygiene during my entire stay in the various places
The second day, Alexei Bell, handcuffed,
made on me the "double key Nelson",
putting their hands inside my arms and behind the
back of my neck, lowering my head to the ground
So with my head down, they took me out of the cell, down the stairs at full speed,
pushing me, took me for meters and meters, passing in front of the officials' offices,
and saying "Are you going to eat?" I said no, and so they gave orders to return
me to the cell and told me that they would repeat the same thing later on and on
Every certain hours they repeated this operation
This is known as "the bicycle" They did it several times a day
They did it 5 times that I remember
Every time I returned to the cell I fell to the
ground and stayed in it for hours until I recovered
In the cell, in addition, there was no mattress
They gave you a wool mattress, with wool balls, old and dirty, at 10
o'clock at night and they took it off at 6 o'clock in the morning
The hygiene was terrible
From there they took me out after 7 days in the dungeon, to a dark room where they
started giving me water twice a day, at 6 in the afternoon and 6 in the morning
At 7 o'clock on the night of September 26, they
took me to the Juan Bruno Zayas Clinical Hospital
In Boniato I spent 15 days
In the Juan Bruno Zayas Hospital they handcuffed me every
foot and one hand in which I did not have the serum
I could barely sleep, or turn around, and I still have pain in my ribs
for more than 10 days without rest handcuffed like that, immobilized
Then came a guard who removed my handcuffs from my feet but
kept the handcuffs in my hands until the day of my release
In the Hospital there was a moment that they began to give me intravenous serum,
several times, until I refused to receive nutrients, 6 days before my release
I refused since then to any medical care
Next to me, less than two meters away, they cooked
succulent meals, that a I could smell and hear the
cooking, and the jailers ate them by my side, putting
dishes next to me "Look what a delicious dish"
The doctors just gave me professional treatment
They were impressed
The State Security did not allow doctors to talk privately with me
The doctors could not enter with their mobiles
I saw my brother one day 10 minutes and with the State Security in front
In 19 days
In Boniato I could not see my brother except 1 day
In 15 days
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