(EFE).- The organization Prisoners Defenders (PD) denounced this Monday that in Cuba there are 1,002 “political prisoners of conscience”who have been sentenced to prison or suffer “limitation” of freedom” by prosecutors “without any judicial supervision”, in a “flagrant violation” of international law.
In a statement, the Madrid-based NGO assures that there were 272 “political” prisoners at the beginning of August 2021.
However, in the last twelve months, until July 31, 1,251 people have suffered “political” imprisonment in the country, according to what he adds, 887 of them after the protests against the Government of the July 11 last year.
“All of them are tortured – PD deduces -, as demonstrated by the detailed study of 101 random cases denounced by Prisoners Defenders before the United Nations Committee Against Torture (CAT)” presented in March.
Prisoners Defenders has been able to “verify”, among those who are still serving sentences or precautionary measures there are “38 minors in total”
According to the cases that the PD has been able to “verify,” among those who are still serving sentences or precautionary measures there are “38 minors in total.”
Of these, 26 were “already sentenced”, 16 for “sedition”, to an average sentence of “5 years in prison”. In total, 171 protesters have already been sentenced for “sedition”.
Another 697 prisoners “of conscience” are serving sentences of between 1 and 25 years; others are sentenced to 30 years and even “life imprisonment” (12 of them).
And at least 122 women (“including those of the trans gender”) still continue with “orders and political and conscientious convictions.”
Altogether, there are 729 “convicts of conscience” (deprived of liberty); 242 “convicts of conscience” (with limited freedom), another 31 cases of political prisoners.
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