Post by Shadow on Dec 2, 2005 17:40:59 GMT -5
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Thanks to the horrendous treatment they suffer at the hands of brutal jailers at Fidel Castro’s prisons, some prisoners in Cuba are resorting to extreme forms of protest -- including self-mutilation -- as a means to attract international attention to their plight.
According to Miami’s El Nuevo Herald newspaper, protests have included:
# A lawyer and independent journalist imprisoned for two years carved the letters "I" and "L" into his forehead, proclaiming that he was "inocente," or "innocent," and demanding "libertad," or "liberty." According to the newspaper, one the cuts became badly infected.
Prior to these acts of self-mutilation, El Nuevo reported that the man twice attempted suicide in jail by trying to strangle himself with a plastic cord. He remains in one of Castro's lock-ups, condemned to a 20-year sentence.
Thanks to the horrendous treatment they suffer at the hands of brutal jailers at Fidel Castro’s prisons, some prisoners in Cuba are resorting to extreme forms of protest -- including self-mutilation -- as a means to attract international attention to their plight.
According to Miami’s El Nuevo Herald newspaper, protests have included:
# A lawyer and independent journalist imprisoned for two years carved the letters "I" and "L" into his forehead, proclaiming that he was "inocente," or "innocent," and demanding "libertad," or "liberty." According to the newspaper, one the cuts became badly infected.
Prior to these acts of self-mutilation, El Nuevo reported that the man twice attempted suicide in jail by trying to strangle himself with a plastic cord. He remains in one of Castro's lock-ups, condemned to a 20-year sentence.