Mexico City, Mexico.-To the political prisoner Yoandi Montiel Hernandez, known as the “Cuban Cat”, was released from prison this weekend. In a photo published on networks, the thinnest influencer is seen with short hair.
After almost two years in prison, Montiel is due to be released in the coming weeks. The “Cuban Cat” became popular due to the critical content of his direct remarks and how he mixed this with humor. On several occasions he mocked the dictator Miguel Díaz-Canel. Precisely for exercising freedom of expression, he was prosecuted and imprisoned. Until the last moment they denied him parole.
The “Cuban Cat” was sentenced to two years in prison for the alleged crime of contempt in a trial held on April 7, 2022. He had been arrested in April 2021 and taken to Villa Marista, the State Security headquarters in the Island. Later, he was transferred to the Valle Grande prison. While in this prison, he went on a hunger strike to protest the abuses against the inmates.
After more than a year in Valle Grande, in October 2022 was transferred to the Toledo II camp for inmates, a labor prison near Wajay, in the Boyeros municipality.
In order for him to be transferred to an inmate camp, where he can work and even receive passes, El Gato de Cuba was promoted to a minimum severity regime, contemplated in the Regulations of the Cuban Penitentiary System.
Prior to the transfer, his mother, María Hernández Álvarez, announced through a video posted on her social networks that Yoandi Montiel could have received parole since August 2022, but State Security blackmailed her son. with not allowing it until he made a video asking the Cubans not to go out and protest. He said no.
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