Havana Cuba. – This Monday the Cuban authorities transferred to the maximum security prison of Guantánamo the four protesters from the municipality of Caimanera who remain imprisoned after the protests of May 6, reported to CubaNet Yeris Curbelo Aguilera, reporter for Palenque Visión.
This is Luis Miguel Alarcón Martínez, Freddy Sarquiz Gonzalez and the brothers Rodolfo and Daniel Álvarez González. All are being prosecuted for the alleged crime of “public disorder”, but, according to Curbelo Aguilera, “there is the possibility that they add the crime of resistance.”
On May 6, five protesters were violently arrested in Caimanera, Guantanamo, when hundreds of people took to the streets shouting “Freedom!”, “Homeland and life!” and “Long live human rights!”. According to local sources, the trigger for the peaceful protest was the lack of food and the precarious conditions of the health system on the island.
Sarquiz Gonzalezfor his part, was arrested on May 18. Thirteen days later, the regime released Felipe Octavio Correa Martínez and Yandri Pelier Matos from prison. However, the investigation process continues against them for the alleged crime of “public disorder.”
Just three days after the demonstration, Amnesty International (AI) demanded to the Cuban regime the release of the demonstrators detained for the peaceful protests of May 6 in Caimanera.
According to Prisoners DefendersCurrently, there are at least 1,048 political prisoners in Cuba, most of them for peacefully demonstrating against the Cuban regime. on July 11, 2021.
