Political Prisoner
Havana, Cuba (CNA) -
The coordinator of the Christian Liberation Movement, Oswald Paya,
recently charged that the mother of a deceased political prisoner is
being mistreated by the Cuban government. Paya noted that the harassment
is preventing the mother of Orlando Zapata from even attending Mass.
Last February, Orlando Zapata died after a prolonged hunger strike.
"Zapata gave his life voluntarily, but because of the cruelty and the
crime of the regime, Zapata suffered until death for the dignity of
Cubans, for the release of all political prisoners," Paya stated.
Now, he continued, it is Zapata's mother, Reina Tamayo, who "is being
mistreated, harassed and repressed keeping her from going to church and
from marching in the streets to make it known that her son died because
of the government."
Paya said that just as the movement supported her "to prevent her son
from dying, so now we support her in her right to cry out for justice
and to denounce the death of her son."
The movement's coordinator also remarked that he was not able to make
statements sooner "because the government cut the phone lines to my home
after I gave an interview to the Spanish station Onda Cero."
"The government has made me unreachable so that I could not speak to the
press, so that I could not speak to my brothers who are going to be
exiled," he added.
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