“My time in prison was very hard and unpleasant, among other things due to lack of medication,” explains Jorge Ernesto Pérez García
14ymedio, 21 March 2024, Havana — This Friday, the Provincial Court of Havana granted conditional freedom to Jorge Ernesto Pérez García, a member of the Clandestinos group, arrested in January 2020 and sentenced to five years in prison for the crimes of “defamation of institutions and organizations and of the heroes and martyrs of a continuing character” and drug trafficking.
Pérez García, who was tried in the case against the group that threw red paint on pro-government propaganda posters and busts of José Martí, defines his time in prison as “atrocious.” The atrocities are “everywhere, not only in prison, but also in the violation of criminal prosecution rights and even in the Penal Code itself,” he explains in conversation with 14ymedio.
“I left prison on March 15 and my sentence ends on July 13,” the man, age 47 and a resident in the Altahabana neighborhood of the municipality of Boyeros, in Havana, told this newspaper.
“My time in prison was very hard and unpleasant, among other things due to lack of medication,” details Pérez García, who spent three years and four months in Combinado del Este where he was infected with Covid-19. The man denounces the difficulties in receiving medical care in Cuban prisons: “I do not