- A press release distributed by the OCDH in Madrid informs that Luis Barrios Díaz, 37 years old, died on Sunday afternoon due to medical neglect at the hospital La Covadonga, Havana. [Comunicado de Prensa en español después del texto en inglés]
- OCDH estimates that Cuba has more than 1,000 political prisoners and remembers that, under the UN Mandela Rules, the provision of adequate medical services to prisoners is the responsibility of the State.
Madrid, Nov.21.– The Cuban Observatory of Human Rights (OCDH) reported this Monday the death of a political prisoner imprisoned for demonstrations against the government on July 11, 2021supposedly after the prison authorities would not give him the medical attention he needed.
Since last August, Barrios Diaz has been suffering from respiratory problems. The Observatory explained that, because of health problems, he was admitted to the infirmary of prison 1580 in San Miguel del Padrón and then transferred to the hospital. “The doctors of La Covadonga hospital informed the prison authorities that it was necessary to urgently process admission to the hospital due to the ill health of the prisoner but they decided to return him to prison, claiming that They do not have the fuel to guarantee permanent surveillance of political prisoners decision that led to his worsening health condition and death,” the press release detailed.
This is the press release in Spanish:
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The Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR) welcomes the decision to award the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize to Iranian woman human rights defender Narges Mohammadi. In 2015, Mohammadi was imprisoned for standing against the death penalty but released for health reasons in October 2020 before being arrested again on November 16, 2021. Mohammadi has been sentenced to 31 years in prison and 154 lashes. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said it gave the Peace Prize to Mohammadi, “for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all. Her brave struggle has come with tremendous personal costs.”