MADRID, Spain.- Jonathan Torres Farrat, a young protester on July 11, 2021 (11J), was sentenced this Wednesday to four years without internment.
The prosecutor’s request for Jonathan was eight years in prison for the alleged crimes of attack and public disorder, but according to what his mother, the activist Bárbara Farrat Guillén, announced, a week before the trial (in November 2022) he lowered the file with the crimes changed to sedition.
“From today they will have it checked every week and they will have to sign every week,” he specified about the sentence, which the lawyer sent him.
Farrat Guillén “thanked God” for the reduction in sentence, but expressed concern that the harassment will continue. “It is a way of continuing the abuse and the siege on him and on us as relatives,” he said in this regard.
During his live broadcast from Facebook The opponent thanked everyone who kept an eye on her son. And to the rest of the mothers of political prisoners, she assured that she will continue to denounce them.
“As an activist, I promise everyone that I will continue at the foot of the fight,” he said.
On July 11, Jonathan Torres Farrat participated in the protests that took place in the municipality of Diez de Octubre. It is said that he threw a stone to defend his stepfather from police forces attacking protesters. Although the projectile did not cause damage, having thrown it was enough for the boy to be summoned on August 13, 2021 with the aim of conducting an “interview” that was supposed to last half an hour.
Jonathan remained in prison from then until May 25, 2022, when he was released by the regime after a tough campaign by his mother to seek his release. While incarcerated, he became a father for the first time and also wrote to her a letter to the reggaeton player Farruko to intercede for him.
During the entire time that the young man was in prison, Bárbara Farrat was making visible his situation and that of the political prisoners of the Cuban regime; as well as the repression of the relatives of those imprisoned. Her constant denunciations earned her harassment and even arrests.
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