MIAMI, United States. — Cuban activist Carlos Ernesto Díaz González, better known as Ktivo Dissidente, was sentenced to two years and six months in prison for having peacefully protested last April on San Rafael boulevard (Havana).
Díaz González was found guilty this Tuesday of the alleged crimes of defamation, disobedience and contempt in judgment held in the province of Cienfuegos, the opponent’s homeland.
The news was disseminated on social networks by various platforms including cubalexwhich pointed out that the conviction of Ktivo Dissidente contrasts with that of the sexual abuser Fernando Bécquer, who received a derisory sentence of five years of deprivation of rights.
“Fernando Bécquer, accused by 30 women of abuse, is on the street running errands in Vedado. While today the activist Ktivo Dissidente was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for climbing a wall and asking for the release of political prisoners,” he said. cubalex in Twitter.
“The trial of Ktivo Dissidente has concluded. He was sentenced to two years and six months in prison for climbing a wall and protesting. The same sanction that the Attorney General of the Republic requested for understanding him responsible for the crimes of disobedience and contempt, ”he reported in social networks the platform The touch.
It should be noted that Ktivo Dissidente had been imprisoned for almost seven months in the Ariza prison (Cienfuegos). Last July, the Municipal Court of Cienfuegos denied the activist the possibility of being released with a bail of 10,000 pesos, a measure to which the legal body had previously agreed.
Carlos Ernesto Díaz González protested loudly on April 28, 2022 on San Rafael boulevard. There he protested against the immobility of the Cuban people and called to fight against a dictatorship that has been in power for more than 60 years.
“This has to stop, and we have to stop it. There is no civil society. There doesn’t have to be violence, there doesn’t have to be bloodshed, but they have to let us participate in the political life of the country,” the man demanded from the top of a wall.
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