This Tuesday began in Cárdenas, in the province of Matanzas, the trial against 11 people accused of public disorder, contempt and attack for events that allegedly occurred in the July 11 protests. Among the defendants is Lázara Karenia González Fernández, 28 years old, the only woman detained in the municipality and for whom the Prosecutor’s Office is asking for eight years in prison.
The process is expected to end next Friday and the Public Ministry has requested sentences ranging from five to nine years in prison for the 17 defendants, according to Justice 11J.
One of the detainees is Yonniel Betancourt Goving, 18, for whom the Prosecutor’s Office is asking for five years in prison.
The process is expected to end next Friday and the Public Ministry has requested sentences ranging from five to nine years in prison for the 17 defendants, according to Justice 11J
For the same crimes, but with requests for seven years in prison, are accused Danis Osorio Hernández de la Cruz, 33 years old; Daisel Ernesto Sánchez Taylor, 31 years old; Adrian Cao Tejera, 30 years old; Óscar Valdez Quiala, 28 years old; Yandys Ruiz Martínez, 35 years old.
Also Elieser Delgado Mesa, 38 years old; Julián Rodríguez López, 26 years old; Samuel Pupo Martínez, 47 years old, and Osain Denis Trujillo, 41 years old.
The Prosecutor’s Office asks for eight years in prison for Yosday Escobar Hernández, 35 years old; and Yohandys Leonard Pérez, 31 years old.
For four more people, the Prosecutor’s Office asks for nine years in prison: Francisco Rafael Villa Tamari, 48 years old; Jorge Serrano Alfonso, 49 years old; Jorge Víctor Quintana Cala, 48 years old and Jorge Yadiel Robaina Aranega, 27 years old.
The case of Lázara Karenia is one of the most controversial, since a video has been released that proves the violent detention she suffered. Kenya, one of her sisters, explained on Twitter that on July 11 Lázara was insulted by a woman from across the street: “You are a worm, you are a worm, because she looks with those clothes! “.
Kenya reported that her sister is innocent and only defended herself: “But why do you talk to me like that, if I don’t know you, I haven’t done anything to you?” “All this happened, one from one sidewalk and the other from another. There was distance between one and the other, at no time was there physical aggression, at no time was anything thrown, it was all verbal aggression,” added Lázara’s sister.
The family of this young woman indicted assures that she was beaten by the Police and by a young woman named Nayelis Corrio who used “a prohibited martial art technique.” The arrest and beatings received by Lázara Karenia were recorded by the journalist Orelvis Cabrera, who was later detained for 37 days and fled to Russia.
This Tuesday, in addition, the request for eight years in prison for Jonathan Torres Farrat, 17, for crimes of spreading an epidemic, attack and public disorder
This Tuesday, in addition, the request for eight years in prison for Jonathan Torres Farrat, 17, for crimes of spreading an epidemic, attack and public disorder, was revealed.
Bárbara Farrat, mother of the teenager arrested after the July 11 protests, disclosed the information through a video on Facebook. “This is already happening injustice, eight years the State asks you as if it were eight days, eight months,” she said. “The State thinks that everything is going to be solved with prison and in the end the remedy is going to be worse than the disease, because in the end they are boys and that is not a school, they do not learn anything nice.”
The woman, who was also arrested last December, reported that days ago she found out about the prosecutor’s request, but the file was unfinished, because the number of years that the Public Ministry would request was missing.
Jonathan Torres, 17 years old, is one of the more than 40 teenagers who were arrested after the 11J demonstrations. He lived with his family on Calzada Diez de Octubre, in Havana, and on the day of the protests the young man went out to look for his father.
His mother recounts that she found him hiding behind a wall, protecting himself from the bullets in the middle of the demonstration and Jonathan threw a stone; after that they returned to his house and a month later, on August 13, the police came looking for him for a half-hour interview, according to Farrat. Since then, Jonathan has not been released from prison, where he finds himself with a precautionary measure that the authorities have not wanted to eliminate despite the pleas of his family and numerous activists.
Justice 11J gave details of the file in which the young man appears, that of Diez de Octubre, in which 15 people will be tried for the crimes of attack, contempt, public disorder and instigation to commit a crime and whose prosecutor is Vivian Pérez Pérez, who asks for penalties between seven and 13 years in prison.
Justice 11J gave details of the file in which the young man appears, that of Diez de Octubre, in which sentences of between seven and 13 years in prison are requested
Richard Jorge Hierrezuelo, 36, is the one for whom the longest amount of time in prison has been requested, 13 years. With a request of 12 are Maykel Arnaldo Reyes Álvarez, 40, and Ernesto Brieva Sempé, 48.
11 years in prison are requested for Omar Bravo Cruzata (22), Hansel Felipe Arbolay Prim (28), and Manuel de Jesús Rodríguez Santiesteban (51). For most of those included in the file, 10 years in prison are requested. This is the case of Andro Ledesma Prieto (18), Luis Daniel Carrillo Urquiola (18), Kevin Lázaro Pimentel Oduardo (19), Kelvin Edward Charles Matos (18), Alejandro Flores Rubio (22), Yuniel Blanco Jiménez (35) and Rudyelis Ulloa Lopez (36).
The shortest prison requests are for the young Torres and for Dayana Camejo Ramos, (34), whose request amounts to 7 years.
Justice 11J revealed on March 8 that there are two new accusations against minors “in the process of verification”, that of Yasbelys Rodríguez León, 16 years old, and that of Kevin Ángel Álvarez Echeverría, 17 years old, both prosecuted by the Military Tribunal of Artemisa since March 7, according to a group post on Facebook.
The group points out that there are at least 53 accusations against adolescents for the demonstrations.
According to Justicia 11J and the NGO Cubalex, a total of 1,442 people have been detained in relation to the July 11 protests, of which at least 756 remain in detention centers.
The Madrid-based NGO Cuban Prisoners points out that at least 842 people were in prison for political reasons at the end of 2021, most of them for the 11J demonstrations.
The Cuban government has denied that there are political prisoners and assures that the detainees are being tried for “acts of vandalism” and “serious disturbances of order.”
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