The young woman’s family had already denounced the pressure from the political police to have an abortion.
14ymedio, Havana, 29 May 2024 — Lisdani Rodríguez, one of the two sisters from Placetas, Villa Clara, arrested after demonstrating on 11 July 2021, was released this Tuesday after becoming pregnant. The young woman is six months pregnant and was diagnosed with placenta previa – a condition that can cause intense bleeding – for which the authorities granted her a year of extra-penal leave.
The information was published on social networks by journalist Mónica Baró, resident in the United States, who said that Rodríguez must receive special care “away from the inhumane conditions of prison.”
“Let’s hope that Lisdani is not separated from her son once he is born, and that her triplet* sister, Lisdiany, is released so that she can also be with her daughter. Neither of them has committed any crime,” Baró added in her publication.
News about the pregnancy of Rodríguez, sentenced to eight years for demonstrating in Placetas, began to circulate at the beginning of the year, when her mother, Bárbara Isaac, denounced the pressure from the political police agents of the Guamajal women’s prison, in Santa Clara, so that she would have an abortion.
“They want my daughter to have an abortion but she doesn’t want to because she has always hoped to have a baby. She didn’t imagine the moment it came to pass but they (her daughter and her pa