Havana/After eight months of keeping it in “provisional imprison 14ymedio, José Gabriel Barrenechea. In the document, signed on June 25 and to which this newspaper had access, prosecutor Ayrebi Miranda Pérez asks for six years in prison for the crime of public disorders.
According to this newspaper a relative of Barrenechea, now the defense of the writer has 26 business days to “study the case.” “Then we will be notified for the trial,” he adds.
The request delivered by the Prosecutor’s Office, which includes the names of the rest of the accused for demonstrating against the blackouts in the municipality of Crossroads In November 2024, he describes the crime of Barrenechea: having shouted “put the current, we want the current”, in chorus with other protesters, and urge “lively voice to the fact that the people present did not give up their actions.”
Likewise, the document refers to the journalist as a citizen without a criminal record, but who “relates to people of bad morality and social behavior, and does not have recognized labor link.”
They also ask for sentences from four to nine years for the other five protesters arrested during the protest
Nine years are also requested for Yandri Torres Quintana and Rafael Javier Camacho Herrera, five for Rodel Bárbaro Rodríguez Espinosa and Marcos Daniel Díaz Rodríguez, and four for Yuniesky Lorences Domínguez, for having participated all in the protests with dozens of neighbors of the municipality.
Recently, the Human Rights Foundation in Cuba included in its repressor list To the prosecutor of the case, Ayrebi Miranda Pérez, for “requesting severe and unfair prison sentences” for the crossroads. “The attorney has nothing else to describe in his provisional conclusions unless the accused led and touched cauldrons and shouted ‘we want current’,” the platform criticized.
José Gabriel Barrenechea was arrested on November 7 at the crossroads after demonstrating and, three days later, the family had no news where he was, after having been in the Santa Clara Police Instruction Unit, where he was interrogated. Initially the authorities tried to accuse him of sedition, but the journalist himself informed that they had withdrawn of it and had been charged with “public disorder.”
Last June the Provincial Court of Villa Clara rejected a request for freedom In favor of Barrenechea, who had already been in the prison in the prison in the penalty for several months. During his prison time, Barrenechea suffered the death of his motherwhich depended on him, and was only allowed to attend his funeral for an hour and a half.
Police confirmed the accusation to Cuza: “He is imprisoned because a projectile was found,” said a political police officer
Another political prisoner, Ángel Cuza, released last May when he fulfilled his conviction and again stopped last Friday, now faces new accusations. The activist, the Cultural Rights Observatory reported, was arrested in “the repressive days that has unleashed the security of the State in the environment of the official celebrations for July 26” and transferred to the Vivac detention Center, in Havana. According to the activist Anamely Ramos, in addition to his complaints of the case on social networks “they want to accuse him of possession of explosives or something similar. And that everything is for a small bullet with which he was and that has been years ago.”
In a call to the police station in which he was arrested before his transfer to Vivac, activist Keilylli de la Mora confirmed the accusation: “He is imprisoned because a projectile was found,” an agent assured him. Currently, several activists and organizations have reported, Cuza remains in the east combined.
According to De la Mora, the object “is a bullet that had for a long time and used it as shelter. He even had it since his previous imprisonment.” Something similar told Ramos, who pointed out that bullet caps are usually used as “souvenir.” “Angel has eaten very little since he was arrested, because at the time he was arrested he had not eaten. They have not yet let him pass practically anything,” he added.
Cuza was release last Mayafter serving a year and a half in jail in the team of the East, in the capital. The artist had been arrested in December 2022, at the gates of a store in the capital, while queuing chicken. He was accused of “alteration of public order” for carrying “sticks and stones”, something that both he and face -to -face witnesses denied.
