Beating of a Prisoner, Ciego de Avila

The young offender Roberto Pantal Gonzalez, who is a mentally sick auto-aggressor, was the victim of a beating carried out by the non-commissioned Preval and Mesias functionaries from the Order of the Interior. This happened on the 1st of January 2010 within the cells located in the punishment and isolation zone in the Provincial Prison of Canaleta in Ciego de Avila.

The official from the Ministry of the Interior, Roberto Mesias, has distinguished himself in the provincial penal as the one responsible for giving multiple physical blows to handcuffed prisoners; an unpunished violation of articles 58 of the Socialist Constitution, number 11 of the draconian penal code, and the 5th in the Declaration of Human Rights.

Pedro Arguelles Moran

Group of the 75 of the Black Spring, provincial Canaleta prison, Ciego de Avila, Cuba.