HAVANA, Cuba.- From the Combinado del Este prison of maximum rigor, which is located at kilometer 13 ½ of the Monumental road, in the Guanabacoa municipality of the capital of the island, citizen Jorge Ernesto Pérez García denounces that the prison authorities denied him transfer to the minimum severity regimen.
Jorge Ernesto Pérez García, 46 years old and a resident of the Altahabana neighborhood, in the Boyeros municipality, indicates that he was arrested on January 7, 2020 and later sentenced to one year in prison accused of “counterrevolution”, for allegedly having painted red a bust of José Martí, plus four years for the crime (also fabricated) of drug trafficking.
Pérez García notes that once the transfer to the minimum severity regime has been denied, he must wait six months to request it again. He adds that the justification of the prison authorities for such a refusal would be his “indiscipline”. According to him, this is due to the fact that in November 2021 he had an altercation with the 2nd chief of internal order, an officer named Ariel, who sprayed pepper spray in his eyes and for that reason he declared a hunger strike. .
He also denounces that Panter Rodríguez Bravo, his partner in the case sentenced to 25 years in prison, is still kept locked up in section 47, which is where those sentenced to life imprisonment are kept. Jorge Ernesto Pérez emphasizes that Rodríguez Bravo is not a drug addict or criminal, much less a drug trafficker as the official media would have us believe.
Jorge Ernesto Pérez García, a member of Clandestinos according to the Cuban government, adds that he is a mid-level construction technician and at the time of his arrest he was working as a brigade chief in a cooperative in that field.
According to an informative note from the Cuban authorities in January 2021the criminal actions against the members of Clandestinos, “were recorded with the cell phone of the defendant Jorge Ernesto Pérez García, who sent them to his resident links in the US, who published them for the world on Facebook social networks, Instagram and other sites.
According to the official statement, the TPP of Havana “considered it proven that the defendants Panter Rodríguez Baró and Yoel Prieto Tamayo, agreed to discredit the image of José Martí, bought six stones of the drug commonly known as cocaine with part of the money received by a Cuban citizen residing in the United States, which they used to carry out the criminal acts.”
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