Javier González Fernández suffers from neurological disorders that cannot be treated in prison
14ymedio, Havana, June 21, 2024 — The Provincial Court of Artemisa denied, for the second time on June 18 the extra-penal permit to political prisoner Fernández leave from prison Javier González to treat his ailments. In addition to severe neurological conditions, he suffers from depressive disorder, generalized anxiety and refractory chronic insomnia, Cubalex reported this Friday.
The opponent, sentenced in January 2022 to four years in prison for the crimes of public disorder, contempt, assault and affront to national symbols after participating in the protests of 11 July 2021 (’11J’), in the city of Artemisa, also has a disorder in the middle ear and a skull fracture caused by a machete attack he suffered in his youth. Over time, the injury led to permanent insomnia, so he barely sleeps, his father, Jorge González Soto, explained to Martí Noticias.
Gonzalez, age 37, suffers from a health condition that requires strict treatment Cuban prisons’ health services cannot guarantee. An Artemisa medical-penal commission has certified on two occasions that the political prisoner does not have adequate conditions in his current penitentiary regime, but the Court has ignored the recommendations. It took eight months to respond to the request for out-of-prison leave although the established period is two months.
He also has a disorder in his middle ear