In San José de las Lajas (Mayabeque) a trial began this Thursday against seven 11J protesters, including the writer María Cristina Garrido Rodríguez and her sister Angélica, for whom various activists have mobilized in recent hours.
Those responsible for Ilíada Ediciones reported through their networks that the income from sales from Garrido Rodriguez’s book time exam They will go entirely to the author, “who became an activist for the defense of human rights and women’s rights in Cuba for a long time,” the editors specify.
For her, the Prosecutor’s Office asks for 15 years, for the crimes of “attack”, “disrespect”, “resistance”, “public disorder” and “organization to commit a crime”. In statements to 14ymedio, Garrido’s husband, Michel Valladares Cala, described the trial as a “circus”, in which he even assures that the prosecutors exposed the contradictions in which the police officers incurred when offering their testimonies. “They haven’t told a single truth, a pure lie, a pure contradiction between them,” says Valladares, who says, however, that the lawyers “are working well.”
“They haven’t told a single truth, a pure lie, a pure contradiction between them”
For the writer’s sister, Angélica Garrido Rodríguez, prosecutor Ruth Rodríguez Reina asks for a 10-year sentence. The rest of the defendants are:
– Giorbis Pardo del Toro (37), 18 years old
– Alexis Pedro Acosta Hernandez (45), 13 years old
– Yanet Sánchez Cocho (39), 10 years old
– Patricia Lázara Acosta Sánchez (20), 7 years old
– Osmany Hernández Rodríguez (34), 6 years old
In that same court in San José de Las Lajas, the process against the 11J demonstrators in Batabanó was carried out, ending on Tuesday, although initially it was expected to end on Wednesday.
In it there was no no change between requests of the prosecutor Ariagne Pérez Pérez, recently included on the list of repressors of the Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba (FDHC):
– Vladimir Castillo Llanes (26), 14 years old
– Jorge Yenier Ortiz Aguilera (31), 10 years old
– Rogelio Lázaro Domínguez Pérez (26), 8 years old
– Manuel Velazquez Licea (39), 8 years old
– Allen Molina Castell (38), 7 years old
– Mailene Noguera Santiesteban (34), 6 years and 6 months
– Humberto Monrabals Camps (65), 6 years old
– Arturo Valentin Riveron (48), 6 years old
– Emmanuel Robles Pérez (32), 6 years old
– Jesús Pérez Quintero (27), 5 years of correctional work with internment
– Emelina Pendás Rodríguez (46), 5 years of correctional work with internment
– Yusmely Moreno González (42), 3 years old
– Danger Acosta Justi (43), 3 years old
– Sergio Enseñat Valladares (29), 1 year of correctional work with internment
– Yaroski Amat Salabarria (38), 1 year and 6 months of correctional work with internment
On the other hand, three young people arrested for demonstrating on July 11 and tried in Havana this week have seen their sentence reduced by the Prosecutor’s Office. Nelson Néstor Rivero Garzón and Emiyoslán Román Rodríguez are 17 years old and the other, Yensy Jorge Machado González, 18.
Mabel Palacios Aties, also included in the FDHC’s list of repressors, requested 15 years in prison, which the judges reduced the possible sentence to 7 years.
From 15 years in prison requested by the prosecutor of the Municipal Court of Diez de Octubre, Mabel Palacios Aties -also included in the list of repressors of the FDHC-, the judges reduced the possible sentence to 7 years, reports Radio Television Marti with source in the father of one of the defendants.
The high prison sentences for the rest of those prosecuted in that court are ratified:
– Elieser Gordín Rojas (42), 27 years in prison
– Roberto Ferrer Gener (48 years old), 20 years old
– Santiago Vázquez León (21), 20 years old
– Yosney Emilio Roman Rodriguez (25), 20 years old
– Carlos Luis Águila Socarrás (34), 20 years old
– Frandy Gonzalez Leon (27), 20 years old
– Adonay López López (34), 20 years old
– Harold Michel Mena Nuviola (28), 20 years old
– Jaime Alcide Firdó Rodríguez (21), 20 years old
– Alejandro Becquer Arias (23), 20 years old
– Amaury Leyva Prieto (29), 20 years old
– Julian Yasmany Diaz Mena (34), 20 years old
– Raudel Saborín González (24), 20 years old
– Juan Carlos Morales Herrera (49), 20 years old
– Eduardo Álvarez Rigal (31), 20 years old
– Yasiel Arnaldo Córdova Rodríguez (25), 20 years old
– Yeiner Ibáñez Boude (19), 18 years old
– Frank Daniel Roig Sotolongo (19), 15 years old
– Yasell Guerra Campos (19), 15 years old
– Marcos Antonio Alfonso Breto (19), 15 years old
The trial held in Havana was scheduled to last until Friday, but it ended on Tuesday, explains Cubalex, because “they had no evidence and they finished it earlier, just like the one in Batabanó.”
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