She needs a humanitarian visa to get treatment
Xiomara de las Mercedes Cruz Miranda is a Lady in White and Cuban prisoner of conscience who is deathly ill. Due to the seriousness of her illness she was placed on a prison furlough on August 10, 2019. This is to avoid the bad press of another Cuban prisoner of conscience dying in prison. However her health continues to deteriorate and there is a campaign underway, led by the Ladies in White, for her to be granted a humanitarian visa to obtain medical care abroad.
Xiomara was arrested on April 16, 2016 for speaking out during a human rights demonstration in Havana's Central park. She was placed on parole in January of 2018. She was re-arrested in mid-September 2018 under the charge of being "threatening." On September 19, 2018 she was tried and sentenced to one year and four months in prison. She was sent to a prison 400 kilometers from her home. This was an added hardship for her family to visit her, and keep an eye on her well being.
Xiomara was sent to a punishment cell for at least 10 days for speaking to her daughter over the phone. Apparently, officials did not like the content of their conversation.
On August 8, 2019 she was transferred to intensive care. Cuban dissident Angel Juan Moya posted videos of interviews from August 6th and August 7th
with doctors at the hospital. Family members complained that they
are receiving differing diagnoses and her situation continues to worsen.
Xiomara was in intensive care and doctors were saying that it could be
lung cancer. A doctor refused to update the family saying: "that he did
not want to see those people."
Their is cause for great concern. Xiomara's condition is deteriorating, and one of the doctors raised the issue of a "political" question. Cuban healthcare has a long history of being subordinated to political considerations. The health of the patient is not the top priority.
This is why a humanitarian visa and medical care abroad to ascertain what his happening to her is a necessity.
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| Xiomara de las Mercedes today |
Acabo de hablar con la @DamasdBlanco Xiomara Cruz MIRANDA , le duele todo el cuerpo , los médicos van muy poco a verla , no hay diagnóstico seguro.Necesita una visa humanitaria.>#XIOMARAVIVEYQUIEREVIVIR #FREEJOSEDANIEL #LIBERTADPARATODOSLOSPRESOPOLITICOS— Damas de Blanco PREMIO ANDREI SAJAROV 2005 (@DamasdBlanco) November 26, 2019
Xiomara was arrested on April 16, 2016 for speaking out during a human rights demonstration in Havana's Central park. She was placed on parole in January of 2018. She was re-arrested in mid-September 2018 under the charge of being "threatening." On September 19, 2018 she was tried and sentenced to one year and four months in prison. She was sent to a prison 400 kilometers from her home. This was an added hardship for her family to visit her, and keep an eye on her well being.
Xiomara was sent to a punishment cell for at least 10 days for speaking to her daughter over the phone. Apparently, officials did not like the content of their conversation.
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| Xiomara de las Mercedes Cruz Miranda before and during her jailing. |
Their is cause for great concern. Xiomara's condition is deteriorating, and one of the doctors raised the issue of a "political" question. Cuban healthcare has a long history of being subordinated to political considerations. The health of the patient is not the top priority.
This is why a humanitarian visa and medical care abroad to ascertain what his happening to her is a necessity.
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Libertad ahora para los presos políticos de los Castro, soy testigo de como obligan a trabajadores de la salud para dar falsos diagnósticos y utilizar la medicina como vehículo de tortura o asesinato a quienes defienden derechos Humanos en Cuba!!!!
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