(EFE)
Together, those sanctioned accumulate 52 years, with a prison sentence of less than seven years. The sentence, to which EFE has had access, is dated September 23 and is not final.
In it, the Popular Municipal Court of Arroyo Naranjo condemned the seven defendants for participating in a demonstration that passed through the popular Esquina de Toyo, an area that produced one of the most remembered images of that day: the overturning of a patrol car.
According to the proven facts, those involved “joined an agglomeration of people who, in an organized and aggressive way, created a crisis situation in the city.”
In the same way, the court accuses them of having invited more people to join “to create an environment of general discontent and thereby destabilize the rule of law and social justice.”
In addition, “they shouted derogatory and offensive phrases and slogans against the figure of the President of the Republic of Cuba” and threw stones at the police.
Two of the sanctioned –Mariana Fernández León and Yaneris Redondo León, sentenced to 4 years of correctional work without internment and 7 years in prison, respectively– arrived last weekend by raft in the US, according to the organization Justicia 11J.
The trials against the protesters of July 11, 2021 have been taking place in Cuba since the end of 2021 while the relatives of the convicted and NGOs have criticized them for lack of guarantees, fabrication of evidence and the high sentences.
Foreign media do not have access to the trials, nor do organizations such as Amnesty International, which had requested it, or ambassadors from some European countries who tried to attend without success.
For its part, the Cuban Supreme Court assures that due process has been observed in all cases opened as a result of 9/11.
According to the NGO Cubalex and the Justicia 11J collective, after last year’s protests, close to 600 sentences have been handed down, some of up to 30 years in prison.
Since July of this year there have been protests throughout the country, especially in recent days due to frequent blackouts and the management of the effects of Hurricane Ian on the national electrical system.
The Cuban Conflict Observatory (OCC), based in Miami, counted 589 protests in October, five more than those registered in July 2021.
The Cuban Attorney General’s Office warned at the beginning of last month that it is investigating the recent protests and that the criminal acts “will receive the corresponding criminal legal response.”
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