Havana/More than a year after the protests of March 2024 in GranmaPrisoners defend (PD) managed to confirm the arrest on that date of at least 17 protesters. If until now the details of the arrests were unknown, the organization clarified in a report On political prisoners corresponding to July, it was because “the fear of those affected” and their families to the repression of the regime limited the investigation in many cases.
On June 20, after remaining for more than a year prisoners without trial, says the report, 16 of the detainees knew their tax requests, a process that was made “without any judicial protection,” he adds. The requested sanctions for the group vary from one to seven years in prison.
Among those arrested in Granma is Juan Carlos Verdó Zamora, who at the time of arrest was only 18 years old. Today it remains in prison and is the only one in the group for which the Prosecutor’s Office has not offered a petition. Two other members of his family were imprisoned during the same demonstration, in which the inhabitants asked for the cessation of the blackouts and the shortage.
PD also denounced that, until the end of July, 1,176 political prisoners remain in Cuban prisons. Of them 124 are women, many of them mothers, and 33 minors, some convicted of “sedition”, one of the crimes most punished by the Criminal Code.
PD also denounced that, until the end of July, 1,176 political prisoners remain in Cuban prisons
Only last month were 25 new political prisoners registered, although seven people also left the list, six for the fulfillment of the conviction and one per death: the political prisoner Yan Carlos González, who died after a prolonged hunger strike in protest for his conviction on July 7.
González had been imprisoned for more than a year in the Santaclareña prison the slope, accused of setting fire to a cane. The 44 -year -old prisoner faced 20 years in prison at the request of the Prosecutor’s Office.
The organization also included in its registration the revocation of probation to five of the political prisoners that benefited from the agreement between Havana and Vatican. Just a week after the death of Pope Francis in April, José Daniel Ferrer and Félix Navarro were returned to prison for an alleged breach of these conditions.
At the beginning of June Donaida Pérez Pasiro, Priestess Yoruba and Placetas resident was revoked. The political dam had been sentenced to eight years in prison for “public disorder”, “disobedience”, “contempt” and “aggression”, also in the context of 11J. In his case, the Court also alleged a “breach of the obligations essentially in the workplace and for not going to the citation of the Execution Judge.”
The first case of revocation, however, was that of Jaime Alcide, signed, released in January and taken again to prison in early April, allegedly for having rejected becoming a confidant state security. The 25 -year -old political prisoner celebrates a sentence of seven for alleged sedition after being part of the 11J protests in the Güinera, Havana.
Finally, days ago the regime returned to prison the political prisoner of the 11J Marlon Brando Díaz Oliva for having allegedly violated your home seclusion regime.
An alarming event also highlighted by the report is that 474 political prisoners suffer from serious diseases
PD also dedicated part of his report to women political prey: 45 of them, they said, they are still imprisoned in inhuman conditions, without medical attention, under extreme heat and constant threats; While another 79 serve sentences in house arrest. Some face sentences up to 15 years.
An alarming event also highlighted by the report is that 474 political prisoners suffer from serious diseases and 40 have mental disorders without receiving adequate medical treatment. The lack of food, ill -treatment and isolation, ensures the organization, aggravates its situation.
Other report The Cuban Observatory of Human Rights (OCDH) ensures that last July was the most repressive month so far this year, with at least 357 actions of this type by the regime. The registration includes cases of harassment, threats, police citations and surveillance to activists and dissidents, especially in Havana, Matanzas, Villa Clara and Granma.
The abuses, says OCDH, intensified around key dates such as the July 4 and the Fourth anniversary of 11jwith the aim of preventing the participation of activists and relatives of political prisoners.
