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CUBA: PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE SUBJECTED TO REPEATED PUNISHMENT

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Cuban prisoner of conscience Roberto Pérez Fonseca is serving a 10-year sentence for participating in the July 2021 protests. His family reports repeated confinement in punishment cells, restrictions on family contact and deteriorating health due to chronic illnesses and inadequate medical care. He remains at risk of further ill-treatment.

Call for his immediate and unconditional release and pending release, adequate medical care, regular family contact, and an end to all punitive measures and ill-treatment.

PLEASE TAKE ACTION AS SOON AS POSSIBLE UNTIL: January 10, 2027.

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Dear President Miguel Díaz-Canel,

I am writing about prisoner of conscience Roberto Pérez Fonseca, who is serving a 10-year sentence in Quivicán prison for peacefully exercising his rights during the July 11, 2021 protests.

Information provided to Amnesty International documents a pattern of human rights violations against Roberto, including repeated denial of adequate medical care, restrictions on communication, physical violence, and recurrent confinement in punishment cells.

In September 2026, according to his family, another prisoner assaulted Roberto in front of prison guards and threatened him with a bladed weapon. After the alleged aggressor was not punished, Roberto protested in the prison yard with a sheet bearing the words “Patria y Vida” (Homeland and Life) and “Abajo la dictadura” (Down with the dictatorship). Prison authorities responded by placing him in a punishment cell. He was later removed from the punishment cell due to his deteriorating health.

Roberto suffers from serious chronic gastrointestinal illnesses that have progressively deteriorated during his imprisonment. His family reports inadequate medical care, restrictions on communication and visits, and repeated punitive isolation raising serious concerns about his health, safety, and well-being.

I urge you to immediately and unconditionally release Roberto Pérez Fonseca. Pending his release, ensure adequate healthcare, regular family and legal contact, and protection from torture and other ill-treatment, including punitive isolation.

Yours sincerely,

[YOUR NAME]

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Miguel Díaz-Canel, President of Cuba

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Hidalgo Esq. 6, Plaza de La Revolución

CP 10400, La Habana, Cuba

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CC: Cuban Embassy in the United States

Ambassador Lianys Torres Rivera

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2630 16th Street, NW,

Washington DC 20009

[email protected] @lianystr

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