A 21-year-old girl was murdered by her ex-partner on January 4 in the municipality of San Luis, Santiago de Cuba, reported this Thursday Magazine Tense Wings and the YoSíTeCreo platform in Cuba. In a joint publication on social networks, the activists indicated that the fact was confirmed with family and community sources, and that this is the third femicide reported in the first week of the year.
By way of balance, they report that they have verified “the under-registration” of femicides from last year “which has the painful figure of 34 femicides and four doubtful cases, which require access to the police investigation report” to determine if they were deaths caused by sexist violence.
The activists make a call not to lower our guard in denouncing these events and especially in their prevention. They also appreciate “the citizen help” that the independent observatories receive.
As they specify, now more than ever “these complaints and citizen data are key” because in the preliminary draft of the new Penal Code, “committing the crime on the grounds of gender discrimination” is added as circumstances of the murder. They consider this to be “a step forward with respect to the current law” but that it can lead to “more correct” terms such as femicide.
Now more than ever “these complaints and citizen data are key” because in the preliminary draft of the new Penal Code it is added as circumstances of the murder “committing the crime on the grounds of gender discrimination”
“This typology, in force since this month of January, takes into account feminicides outside the sphere of the couple, such as sexual, social, family and vicarious feminicide. It is time to bring the public debate on feminicides in Cuba to the level of the law “, they consider.
On December 24, in the city of Guantánamo, she was murdered by her former partner Ruthjaine Estrada González, 25, according to the feminist magazine and the YoSíTeCreo platform in Cuba.
“The high degree of cruelty and cruelty observed in this case, as well as that of Mailén Guerra García, in Villa Clara, and that of Misladis Carmenates Hidalgo in Camagüey, warn of the urgency of preventing misogyny and femicidal violence in Cuba , with specific and concrete actions, with structural changes in favor of the protection of women, “they denounced then.
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