Not mentioned are the results from severe beatings and unattended fractures and wounds. Two years ago. the regime began the new legal monstrosity of resentencing prisoners who had served their terms but yet unreleased as punishment to those who protested the habitual abuses or opposed and survived the "disciplinary rigor phase" of the evil plan of reeducation. (Confirmation of its existence is in Cubas communist official newspaper "Granma". of May 17. 1969. pages 3 and 4. in the interview of Lieut. Medardo Lemus. then Chief of Prisons and Penal Establishment. who in that interview even implies physical elimination of those obstructing the evil reeducation plan.) Help is needed from an international body such as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. the UN Commission on Human Rights. or any other ready to assist directly many of the former prisoners who. having completed their sentences under the reeducation plan. cannot abandon the country with their immediate families or join other relatives abroad if the permit had not been requested before May 31. 1970. The measure seems to have been put into effect to prevent large numberswho were sentenced in 1960 thru 1967 to 9. 12 and 15 years. many of them students--to depart. notwithstanding the social pressure against them once they are back into .the mainstream of ordinary life. Most urgent attention on humanitarian grounds is needed by those who are seriously or mortally ill.
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