MADRID, Spain.- The Lady in White Sayli Navarro is incommunicado in the women’s prison known as Bellotex, in Matanzas.
As denounced by the Cuban Women’s Network through Twitterthe opponent and coordinator of the Cuba Decide platform was “punished with the suspension of her telephone calls for 15 days for denouncing by telephone what happened on the day of the trial and her transfer to the Bellotex prison.”
Sayli Navarro @DamasdBlanco and political prisoner Sayli Navarro is punished with the suspension of her telephone calls for 15 days for denouncing by telephone what happened on the day of the trial and her transfer to the Bellotex prison.@UN_rights @UNWomen @EamonGilmore pic.twitter.com/QNXasB5zrt
— Cuban Women’s Network (@FemeninaRed) May 21, 2022
The activist was also threatened with being transferred to a prison far from her home, in Perico, Matanzas province. She so she informed her to Radio Television Marti Sonia Álvarez Campillo, mother of the opponent and wife of political prisoner Félix Navarro.
“I couldn’t go to Sayli’s visit, it was her cousins. There they found out that Sayli’s phone had been suspended for 15 days for having filed a complaint against the ‘counterrevolutionary’ Otaola. But the head of the prison had already told my daughter about the complaint. She had told him in advance that they were going to suspend her telephone number, and that they could also transfer her to Guantánamo”, Álvarez Campillo recounted.
Last April Sayli Navarro and her father were imprisoned at the conclusion of an appeal trial of nine participants in the popular protests of July 11, 2021 in Perico and Jovellanos, Matanzas.
Felix Navarro and Saily Navarro are damned to nine and eight years in prison, respectively.
Along with Sayli Navarro and Félix Navarro, Mildrey Mederos Soca, Odrey Rodríguez Lanz, Adrián Echegoyen Espiñeira, Daymelin Abreu Rodríguez, Cristian Carlos Contreras Matos, Yoandry Ripoll Smith and Yanelys Rosabal Milanés were sentenced for the alleged crimes of attack, public disorder and contempt.
One day before the trial, Saily Navarro had told Radio Television Marti that from the appeal he expected what has been happening with the rest of the appeals of the 11J protesters: “a ratification of the sentence”.
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