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An 11J prisoner says he has worked a year without pay at Havana's Camp 16

Franyer Abad Dumet, sentenced to 10 years over the La Güinera protests, says he has not been paid since November 2025 because he was given a magnetic card without a PIN and, as an inmate, has no ID card to collect the money at a bank, according to CubaNet and Infobae.

Franyer Abad Dumet, 31, says he receives no pay for the work he does at Prisoners' Camp number 16, in San Miguel del Padrón, Havana, since he arrived there on Nov. 12, 2025. He says he was given a magnetic card without a PIN, which stops him from withdrawing money at cash machines, and that as an inmate he has no identity document to collect it at a bank counter, according to CubaNet and Infobae.

Decree-Law 81/2023, which governs work by people deprived of liberty, states that pay is made in Cuban pesos at least once a month, that the prison authority must make the payment and that the inmate may name a relative in the work contract to collect it on his behalf, according to Infobae.

Another political prisoner at the same camp, Marcos de la Luz Caballero Granados, said in October that he had been working for more than five months without pay and that almost all inmates were in a similar situation, according to CubaNet. There are no public figures on how many prisoners are affected or on the jobs they do.

Abad Dumet was jailed after the protests of July 12, 2021 in La Güinera, Arroyo Naranjo: prosecutors sought 20 years, he was sentenced to 12 and the penalty was set at 10 after an appeal, on charges including sedition, assault, injury and public disorder, according to Infobae. Prisoners Defenders lists him in its database of people jailed for political reasons and its file notes that he suffers severe malnutrition.

Sources: Infobae · Cubanet

Data updated: 2026-11-06T04:15:00.000Z

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