The Municipal Court of Cienfuegos reversed its decision to release Carlos Ernesto Díaz González (known on social networks as Ktivo Disidente) on bail and in prison since the past Thursday April 28 got on a wall on the boulevard of San Rafael in Havana to claim the freedom of Cubans.
According to Cuban Journalwhich quotes a friend of the activist, the magistrates had decided to grant release from prison after payment of 10,000 pesos as bail, but the Prosecutor’s Office claimed the measure and managed to get the court to rectify it.
“The lawyer has done everything possible to get Ktivo released. He requested a procedure of habeas corpus in mid-July and the Court scheduled a hearing to which the Prosecutor’s Office did not attend and Ktivo was not brought. In other words, they totally failed to comply with that procedure,” Manuel Gómez told the independent newspaper.
The man from Cienfuegos is accused of “defamation, disobedience and contempt” and a new habeas corpus hearing is scheduled for this Thursday the 28th after the one on Friday the 22nd was frustrated.
Keilylli De la Mora Valle, a member of the Patriotic Union of Cuba and a friend of Ktivo, told in interview with Marti News that the lawyer had been waiting in court for four hours on the 22nd when he was told that the hearing was being postponed. “The detainee had no knowledge that they were going to transfer him to court that day, which shows the obstacles and the lies of the authorities to keep him locked up,” he said.
Díaz González is imprisoned in the Ariza prison, in Cienfuegos, where he has received, according to his relatives, mistreatment by officials. The artist Luis Dener released a video in early June in which he recounted that five agents handcuffed him out of the punishment cell where he was, after several days on a hunger strike, and beat him and threatened him, finally leaving him with the common prisoners, who allegedly continued to attack him.
The activist also refuses to wear prison clothes and claims his status as a political prisoner.
Ktivo Disidente demonstrated on December 4, 2020 to demand the freedom of Luis Robles, known as the man with the banner. Later he joined the Archipiélago collective and was arrested in November 2021, the day before the Civic March for Change, for putting up protest posters in Cienfuegos.
But his entry into prison finally took place after the iconic protest that he staged on the Havana wall from which he shouted: “There must be no violence, there must be no bloodshed, but they have to let us participate in the political life of the country. The one who is a communist should be, but the one who should not be respected,” he said, while passers-by recorded it on their cell phones. Finally, several agents displaced to the place lowered him from the heights and took him to a police station. Shortly after, he was transferred to Cienfuegos, where he awaits trial.
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