MIAMI, United States. – Three civil society organizations ―Sé Humano, from Nicaragua; Justice, Encounter and Forgiveness, from Venezuela; and Cuba Decidesfrom Cuba― launched on February 14 the campaign Latin America without Political Prisoners.
“In Latin America there are more than 1,500 political prisoners who are under torture conditions in the prisons of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, which is why we have promoted Latin America without Political Prisoners, the first regional campaign that brings together relatives from these three countries to demand the humanitarian treatment and release of those who are imprisoned for political reasons,” the three organizations announced in a statement.
The campaign was launched on February 14, Valentine’s Day, with a video of the couples of two political prisoners who are not allowed by their respective regimes to celebrate the date.
In the video appear the Cuban Ismael Boris Reñí, husband of the political prisoner Aymara Nieto Munoz; and the Venezuelan Claudia Morillo, partner of the political prisoner Jhon Jader Betancourt.
“We premiere a new audiovisual piece that shows the story of Ismael Boris Reñí (Cuba) and Claudia Morillo (Venezuela), who exchange their emotional experience, being separated from their respective partners for reasons of political imprisonment,” announced the three NGOs involved in the bell.
“Behind each person who is serving a sentence for the simple fact of thinking differently, there is a family that faces every day the re-victimization that implies living under the violation of mental, emotional, physical and economic stability that generates the abuse of the civil and political liberties of their loved ones,” they added.
In February 2022, andhe Provincial Popular Court of Havana sentenced the lady in white and UNPACU activist Aymara Nieto Muñoz to five years and four months of imprisonment, who has been serving political prison since 2018.
In this new trial, the activist was accused of committing “disorders in prisons or re-education centers” for allegedly leading a revolt that took place on March 9, 2020 in the Western Women’s Penitentiary Center known as “El Guatao”, in where she was held at the time.
According to her husband, in the trial ―held in Havana and in which Nieto Muñoz participated virtually― “it was demonstrated, once again, that Aymara did not participate in the riot or give up the matchbox for it, and it was also demonstrated that manipulation and hoaxes of the State Security to channel the Aymara”.
