Havana Cuba. — Yesterday a new round of judgments to protesters on July 11, 2021. Among those accused is the young Jonathan Torres Farrat, who was arrested a month after the social outbreak and confined for seven months in the “Jóvenes de Occidente” prison on charges of “Public disorder” and “Attack”. He was 17 years old at the time and was included in the list of 59 minors who had been imprisoned during or as a result of the demonstrations.
On July 11, Jonathan Torres Farrat participated in the protests that took place in the municipality of Diez de Octubre. It is said that he threw a stone to defend his stepfather from the police forces who were firing on the protesters. Although the projectile did not cause damage, having thrown it was enough for the boy to be summoned on August 13, 2021 with the aim of conducting an “interview” that was supposed to last half an hour.
Jonathan remained in prison from then until May 25, 2022, when he was released by the regime after a tough campaign by his mother, Barbara Farrat Guillén, to seek his release. While incarcerated, he became a father for the first time and also wrote to her a letter to the reggaeton player Farruko to intercede for him.
Today Jonathan is facing a prosecutor’s request for eight years in prison in a process that, according to his relatives, has gone by with various irregularities. Bárbara Farrat has been summoned to the trial as a witness for the Prosecutor’s Office, which would mean testifying against her own son.
The mother has denounced that the sanction against Jonathan has been dictated in advance. Like him, fourteen other protesters are on trial. For most of them, the Prosecutor’s Office has requested ten or more years in jail.
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