Andy García Lorenzo, one of the prisoners of 11J released in Santa Clara last Wednesdaywas arrested again this Monday and his situation is confused although, according to the latest information, the open regime measure that had been granted to him was revoked and he must return to prison.
His sister Roxana García Lorenzo told yesterday through Facebook, in a broken connection, that in the morning a summons had arrived at the house indicating that Andy García had to go to court to be notified of the date of entry into a camp to fulfill the remainder of his sentence. The same message reached the rest of those released in the same conditions.
Andy García went to the indicated place, where he was informed that this Tuesday at 2 in the afternoon he had to enter El Jabú, the labor camp in which he was to continue his sentence. Shortly after, the young man went to the Guamajal prison in the company of his father, Nedel García Pacheco, to collect some belongings that he still had there. On the way back home, where they were going by motorcycle, both were stopped “to talk” and were taken to the 5th Unit of Santa Clara, according to activist Saily González Velázquez.
On the way back home, where they were going by motorcycle, both were detained “to talk” and were taken to the 5th Unit of Santa Clara, according to activist Saily González Velázquez.
Roxana García, who went to the detention center to seek explanations, denounced that she was treated “like a dog.” “After this, my brother comes out barefoot, handcuffed to several police officers. Barefoot, that was incredible: everyone was silent. My brother was the one who started telling me ‘they revoked me, they revoked me’. It’s the only thing Andy told me , with tremendous genius,” he said.
“I’m calm because your time will soon come. Your family will have to go through all this because of you. What happens, Andy is in the infirmary? Before all this, Andy had to undergo tests for health problems with his kidneys. He’s urinating blood. They didn’t even allow him to do those tests,” he said.
Pedro López, father-in-law of Roxana García, said: “This is Homeland and Life until it’s over. The trial was a circus, they had to lower his sentence because they realized they don’t have proof against Andy and look what they do now: They arbitrarily detain him and take him away. Then they don’t want you to say that this is a dictatorship. It’s a dictatorship, it doesn’t have another name. We live in a dictatorship.”
Andy García Lorenzo, 24, had been sentenced to four years from prison last January 10, along with other 15 protesters who took to the streets on July 11. The Prosecutor’s Office originally requested seven years in prison for him for public disorder, contempt and attack.
After appealing the sentence, last Wednesday he was “temporarily released”, waiting to “continue serving his sentence in an open”, announced his relatives, who already at that time warned that, although they were happy to be by his side, they knew that the fight was not over.
García Lorenzo had denounced in an interview published by Cubanet that in the few days he had been on the street he was being subjected to constant surveillance – “Monitoring! A caravan. They follow me everywhere. It’s incredible how they spend resources” – but he was very proud of his participation in the protests of 11J.
“How am I going to regret the proudest event of my life, of all Cubans, the happiest day in history, the day the people rose up against the oppressor”
“How am I going to regret the proudest event of my life, of all Cubans, the happiest day in history, the day the people rose up against the oppressor,” he said.
The young man also spoke, hours before his arrest and in a video broadcast on social networks, about the judgment Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara and Maykel Castillo osorb, which began this Monday and ends, predictably, today Tuesday. “That trial is more than done. Injustice prevails in this country. We who have gone through those trials, that is mockery. They are going to try to intimidate the people with that type of trial.”
“The San Isidro Movement has been the inspiration that future things can happen, future movements to finally create a party that really takes down the Castro-communist regime and puts an end to multipartyism in this country. Freedom for my brothers and I really hope justice is served and they are released,” he added.
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