Cuban activist and opponent Carlos Ernesto Díaz González, known as Dissident Ktivo, was sentenced this Tuesday to two years and six months in prison for the crimes of disobedience and contempt. Díaz González had been imprisoned for almost seven months in the Ariza prison, in Cienfuegos, after having requested the release of political prisoners climbed on the wall of a children’s playground, on the boulevard of San Rafael in Havana.
The court ratified the request of the Cienfuegos Provincial Prosecutor’s Office, as reported on Twitter The Legal Touch, for “climbing on a wall and protesting”. Last July, the authorities denied the opponent the payment of a bond of 10,000 pesos to get out of prison, at the request of the Prosecutor’s Office itself.
Last July, the authorities denied the opponent the payment of a bond of 10,000 pesos to be released from prison, at the request of the Prosecutor’s Office itself.
According to Manuel Gómez, a friend of Díaz González interviewed by Cuban newspaperthe courts have systematically failed to comply with all the legal procedures to which the activist was entitled.
After suffering mistreatment, confinement in a punishment cell and declaring himself on hunger strike several times, Díaz González has demanded that he be classified as a political prisoner, refusing to wear the same uniform as common prisoners.
“The fact that Ktivo is accused of contempt and disobedience complicates the complaint about his case,” he anticipated. in an article published this Tuesday the jurist Eloy Viera Cañive. This accusation, he explains, does not oblige the Prosecutor’s Office to issue a document of “provisional conclusions”, which records the facts imputed to the accused and lists the evidence.
The absence of this obligation and, therefore, of the document, prevents human rights organizations from having the information to demonstrate that it is an unfair sentence.
“In the case of Ktivo (as in that of many political prisoners who have been tried through what was once known as summary procedure) secrecy has prevailed,” denounces Viera, who also regrets that the trials do not allow the presence of observers and from the press.
“In the case of Ktivo (as in that of many political prisoners who have been tried through what was once known as summary procedure) secrecy has prevailed”
cubalex He has regretted that, while the activist is waiting for two and a half years in prison, the pro-government singer-songwriter Fernando Becquer, denounced for sexual abuse by some thirty women, has received five years without internment and “is on the street running errands.”
Carlos Ernesto Díaz González demonstrated on December 4, 2020 to demand the release of Luis Robles, known as “the young man with the banner”. He later joined the Archipelago platform and was arrested in November 2021, the eve of the Civic March for Change, for posting protest posters in Cienfuegos.
His imprisonment finally occurred after the protest on San Rafael boulevard, in April of this year, where he shouted: “There must not be violence, there must not be bloodshed, but they have to let us participate in the political life of the country. The one who is a communist may be, but the one who does not have to be respected”, while passers-by recorded it on their cell phones. Finally, several officers took him down from the wall and took him to a police station. Shortly after, he was transferred to Cienfuegos.
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