MIAMI, United States. – This Thursday, Ailex Marcano, from Camagüey, mother of the young Ángel Jesús Veliz Marcano, an imprisoned protester of July 11 (11J), gave an interview to CubaNet in which he provided details of his recent trip to Geneva, Switzerlandto ask for the freedom of Cuban political prisoners.
Accompanied by lawyers from the Cuban Human Rights Observatory (OCDH), Marcano met with officials linked to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.
The interviewee lamented that the regime’s authorities did not put themselves in the place of the mothers and relatives of the 11J prisoners, most of whom were sentenced to long prison sentences through trials in which due process was violated.
Regarding her trip to Geneva, she specified that she was received by representatives of different rapporteurships.
“It is God’s work that the world knows through these officials, these personalities who occupy important positions in the UN and in its human rights headquarters in Geneva, that it really knows what my situation is, what the situation of different families from Camagüey and from all the provinces”, he pointed out.
Infants imprisoned by 11J
Marcano also referred to the situation of minors imprisoned on the island for having protested on 11J and the case of children whose parents were arrested and sentenced after that day.
“I think that we must take the initiative to make the cases of these minors known to the world, not only those of those who are in prison, but also those of the children of those who are prisoners today in Cuban jails and who are suffering the absence of their parents”, he lamented.
In his personal case, he made it known that he will continue to advocate for his son’s freedom. “Now more than before, the families of those in prison are stronger. We are many more,” she said. “I am going to exhaust all the resources [para conseguir su libertad]but I am not going to exhaust myself”, he concluded.
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