MIAMI, United States.- The activists Daniela Rojo and Yeilis Torres left Cuba in recent days as a result of the pressure and threats they have received from State Security, according to information published on social networks.
Rojo, former coordinator of the Archipelago platform, arrived in Frankfurt, Germany, this weekend with her two children, as she herself published on her Facebook social network account.
“We arrived in the city of Frankfurt (Germany) on May 15. Now we are in a refugee reception center while the asylum is being processed […] Here my children and I are safe and I will not be persecuted for my political ideas,” she wrote.
The activist thanked “the German authorities, who have treated us like family” and sent a “huge hug” to those who have shown their concern for her and her two little ones through social networks.
Daniela Rojo was arrested for participating in the massive protests of July 11, 2021. A prosecutor’s request for five years in prison weighed on her.
Cuba did not accept the deportation of Yeilis Torres
For her part, former prosecutor Yeilis Torres, who spent 10 months in prison for an incident with government spokesperson Humberto López, is in the custody of the United States immigration authorities.
Torres, an activist with the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU) and who was recently released from prison without charge, left Cuba by sea and the boat in which he was traveling was intercepted by the US Coastal Service.
Also an activist, Dairis González Ravelo, currently residing in Florida, said on her Facebook account that “when the Cuban government sent the list for deportations to Cuba,” the regime did not accept Torres’s repatriation.
In recent months, opponents, activists, independent journalists and members of civil society who have been forced to leave Cuba due to pressure from State Security and because of the repression, which intensified after 11J.
The best known cases have been those of Esteban Rodríguez, Héctor Luis Valdés Cocho, Claudia Genlui, Carolina Barrero, Hamlet Lavastida, Katherine Bisquet and Yunior García Aguilera.
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