The trial took place in November but the judges allowed a month to pass before announcing the sentences five detainees in Caibarién, Villa Clara, for their participation in the July 11 demonstrations. Magdiel Rodríguez García, 28, is the one who received the highest sentence, four and a half years, for the crime of “attack.”
Under the same accusation, Ysel Fumero Tuero received two years and six months of deprivation of liberty. Both are “acquitted” of the crimes of “public disorder” and “contempt”, for which the Prosecutor requested up to two more years in prison.
The second with a higher sentence, José Rodríguez Herrada and Javier Delgado Torna, were sentenced to three and a half years for “public disorder”, the same accusation against Carlos Michael Morales Rodríguez, who received two years and ten months in prison.
The sentence, signed in Santa Clara on December 27 by judges Yisel Egües González, Gilberto Andrade Quintana and Edelberto Agustín Rodríguez Fernández, makes it clear that Magdiel Rodríguez was not “part of the group that led the march” and had only dated “with the purpose of recording information on a USB memory “.
The second with the highest penalty, José Rodríguez Herrada and Javier Delgado Torna, were sentenced to three and a half years for “public disorder”
At the same time, a statement that the defendant “observed how the agent of the Special Brigades of the Ministry of the Interior Yorvys Vargas González was applying a driving key to a person who was part of the group that violated the citizen’s tranquility, directed his steps towards where he was The agent, stood behind the uniformed man and he hit his back, while he said ‘let him go singao, abuser’, reasons for which, Yorvys, immediately released the alleged detainee and turned to face the accused “.
Agent Yorvys came to the aid of another officer, Vidermsi Matos Rodríguez, with whom Magdiel Rodríguez also confronted. “As a result of the struggle between the agent and the accused,” says the document, “his uniform was damaged in his epaulette and part of his seams, without feeling any economic affectation by this particular.”
The sentence also states that Javier Delgado, alias The one-armed, 53 years old, “transgressing the measures arranged and mandatory” in the province due to the high contagions of covid-19 at the time, “decided to go out to the outskirts of his home” in order to “organize a march through the geography of the municipality of Caibarién “. However, there is no further allusion to a possible crime of “propagation of epidemics”, one of the accusations received by a large part of those accused by the 11J.
Both Delgado and José Rodríguez (50 years old) and Carlos Michael Morales (46 years old), the document refers, “stood in front of the rest of the dealers [unas 50 personas, detallan] and they exhorted them to shout slogans “such as” freedom “,” down with the Revolution “,” we want changes in the Government “and” Homeland and Life “(written in capital letters).
The relatives of the prisoners have denounced the lack of guarantees, as well as the fact that only one relative was allowed to enter for each accused.
Ysel Fumero (47 years old), on the other hand, only went out to the ATM to get money, and when he returned home, “he was in the midst of the people who, imposed by their patriotic sentiments, defended the interests of the Revolution.” There, the text continues, he witnessed “a fight between two women, which led to the intervention of the law enforcement officers who were there.” Faced with the action of the police, Fumero told them “not to beat the women that this was abuse and repression,” “phrases that were heard by Yandier Moreno Urbay, a politician from the Ministry of the Interior in the municipality of Caibarién,” who he ordered him to stop.
There are more sentences to know after other trials that have concluded or they are about to be held in various cities on the island. The relatives of the prisoners have denounced the lack of guarantees, as well as the fact that only one relative was allowed to enter for each accused.
According to the Justice 11J and Cubalex platform, there were 1,314 detainees by the 11J of which at least 696 remain in prisons, while 570 have already been released and others are awaiting trial under a precautionary measure of home detention or freedom. on bail.
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