SLP, Mexico.- After the regime announce the release of 553 inmatesthis Wednesday several Cuban political prisoners were released, under the figures of “early release” and “extra-penal license.”
Until now, sum 18 released, according to the count of the Cuban Observatory of Human Rights (OCDH).
In the names of Rowland Jesús Castillo Castro, Dariel Cruz García, Donaida Pérez Paseiro, Mailene Noguera Santiesteban, Yessica Coimbra Noriega, Reyna Yacnara Barreto Batista, Liván Hernández Sosa,
Katia Beirut Rodríguez, José Miguel Gómez Mondeja, Lisdany Rodríguez IsaacMagdiel Rodríguez García and
César Adrián Delgado Correa, who were previously reported, were joined by six who were released during the day.
Liliana Oropesa Ferrer, Endris Fuentes Zamora, Javier González Fernández, Arturo Valentín Rivero, Jorge Gabriel Arruebarruena León, Rogelio Lázaro Domínguez Pérez are also part of the list of those released, a measure that occurs after the Biden administration’s announcement that it excluded Cuba from the list of countries sponsoring terrorism but which, according to the regime, responds to an agreement with the Vatican to “celebrate the Ordinary Jubilee of 2025.”
“Eighteen political prisoners were released in Cuba this Wednesday, just over 1% of those detained for political reasons in prisons on the island,” the OCDH recalled.
Some of those released have serious health problems that have not been attended to by the authorities for years. Such is the case of Reyna Yacnara Barreto Batistareleased on extra-penal license by the Supreme Court, with a sentence that recognizes her psychiatric illness, ignored by the repressors.
This Wednesday, Maricela Sosa Ravelo, one of the vice presidents of the Supreme People’s Court of Cuba, he stated in the magazine Good morningof the Caribbean Channel, that it was not an amnesty or a pardon, measures that would lead to the total extinction of the sanction and that the beneficiaries would not be subject to any control.
“In this case they are early release benefits,” said the official. He also specified that they include people who, due to their health conditions or age, will receive “extra-penal license.”
After the release of the first political prisoners was reported in the press and social networks, Cubanet built a display where he compiles the names, faces and stories of these freed prisoners. The list, which uses family reports, press releases and publications on social networks as sources, will be updated as we confirm new cases.
This Wednesday, the organization Prisoners Defenders reported that Cuba closed 2024 with 1,161 political prisoners.
In December, the organization’s registry counted 16 new political prisoners and about 58 in the last quarter.
In 12 months, 166 new political prisoners were added to the list, an average of 14 each month. A total of 130 activists, 22 artists and 10 journalists are part of the current list and 648 of the prisoners suffer from medical pathologies caused and/or aggravated as a result of mistreatment, they denounced.
