Detention for manifestation and cruel treatment.

Yordis Garcia Fournier, a prisoner of the July 11 protests, was punished with a two-month suspension of telephone calls to his family members since December 5 at the Guantanamo provincial prison. Garcia Fournier was subjected to a disciplinary council headed by the head of the prison, also known as Combinado, and the head of State Security of the Department of State Security at the prison unit, among other officials. The military denied him his right to make phone calls for two months, due to the hunger strike he carried out last November. The political prisoner held a 13-day fast demanding that he be allowed to wear white civilian clothes and that he be granted the 25 minutes of telephone calls established in the prison regulations. He also demanded that he be allowed to use a personal pot to eat and not the prison's unhygienic trays. Likewise, due to this hunger strike, the prison management threatened the activist with transferring him to the maximum security prison of Kilo 8, in Camagüey province.