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Five years in prison for a Cuban activist for launching leaflets "proposing elections"

Five years in prison for a Cuban activist for launching leaflets "proposing elections"

The activist and reporter Lázaro Yuri Valle Roca was sentenced to five years in prison for the crimes of “ongoing enemy propaganda and resistance.” The sentence of the Provincial Court of Havana was communicated this Thursday to his wife, Eralidis Frometa, who has spread it on social networks and has described her as “liar and manipulated”.

In the same case, Alien Tijerino Castro received four years for continued enemy propaganda, Ruslán Hernández Reyes, two years, and Yusniel Milián González, one year, both for enemy propaganda.

The ruling accuses Valle Roca and Tijerina of holding meetings “with the aim of planning actions contrary to the social and political system in Cuba.”

The ruling accuses Valle Roca and Tijerina of having an “illegal and self-proclaimed NGO” called Delibera in which they held meetings “with the aim of planning actions contrary to the social and political system in Cuba,” in addition to filming them and broadcasting them on social networks to “disseminate to the world an image of social and political instability within the country”.

From there, the text breaks down the actions that the court considers illegal, such as demonstrating and launching leaflets in June 2021 until on the 15th of that month, summoned to the police unit, Valle Roca began to demonstrate against the revolutionary process. and shout loudly “Down with Raúl. This is a dictatorship” starting a struggle with the agents that earned him the charge of the crime of resistance.

Both he and Tijerino had leaflets “with Martian phrases” and other dangerous activities such as “proposing elections” seized. Also cameras, memory cards and mobile phones “with counterrevolutionary content.”

Hernández, whose cell phone was also seized, and Milián, meanwhile, did not possess material considered compromising and their connection to the events is just having responded to a summons. In the case of the latter, moreover, he expressed his “repentance”, despite which he has received a year in prison that he has served during the preventive detention.

The ruling highlights that Lázaro Yuri Valle Roca “maintained a socially inappropriate behavior in his place of residence and not because his ideas were contrary to the principles of the Revolution,” the judges concede, “but because his way of showing that disagreement is not the Right”.

Valle Roca, 60, is the nephew of opposition leader Vladimiro Roca and grandson of communist leader Blas Roca Calderío. Since June 2021 he has been in provisional prison in Villa Marista, for which he has at least four years left in prison.

Lázaro Yuri Valle Roca “maintained a social misconduct in his place of residence and not because his ideas were contrary to the principles of the Revolution, but because his way of showing that disagreement is not correct”

In the time he has been incarcerated, the reporter has suffered the 15 types of torture described by the Madrid-based organization Prisoners Defenders (PD), which submitted a document to the UN denouncing patterns of mistreatment in Cuban prisons.

The list is made up of: deprivation of medical care, forced labor outside of their criminal sentence, obligation to maintain uncomfortable or harmful positions, solitary confinement punishment, use of temperature as a torture mechanism, physical aggression, transfer to unknown locations , intentional disorientation, deprivation of water or food, sleep and communication with lawyers and relatives, threats to their integrity and that of their loved ones, deployment of weapons or elements of torture, intentional subjection to anguish and uncertainty due to the situation of a family member and humiliation, degradation and verbal abuse.

According to the organization, there are at least ten prisoners who have suffered all of this ill-treatment, including Valle Roca.

“The Cuban judicial system does not work because it does not protect, it does not legally protect citizens. I do not intend to review the case or appeal, since we do not have fair laws,” said Eraldis Frometa.

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