A hunger-motivated prison riot at the Canaleta maximum security prison in Ciego de Ávila, Cuba, left at least seven inmates dead and several injured, the human rights organization Prisoners Defenders denounced on Thursday.
In a Facebook post, Prisoners Defenders, citing information from a female former Cuban political prisoner who spoke on condition of anonymity, denounced that the Canaleta prison riot broke in response to the death of a young inmate who was found hanged after he was brutally beaten by prison guards for demanding something to eat. Prisoners Defenders identified the dead young man as 20 year-old “Giancarlo” in a Friday morning social media post.
