Contrary to the trend so far in the trials of protesters on July 11, in which the sentences were ultimately lower than the prosecutor’s request, the Court of Ten of October, in Havana, which tried 33 people on July 31 January, has been relentless.
Thus, he has sentenced the young Brandon David Becerra Curbelo, 17 years old at the time of the arrest, that Sunday, to 13 years in prison, when the Prosecutor’s Office requested 5 years without internment.
His sentence is one of the 128 that were made public this Wednesday and that reflect the harshness of the Cuban courts against the 11J protesters. the sentences spread by the People’s Supreme Court are those related to the protests at the corner of Toyo and La Güinera, in Havana, and the number of years in prison received by the accused adds up to no less than 1,916 years.
The convicted were grouped into six cases, held between December 14 and February 3, for which 129 people were prosecuted, only one was acquitted and another has received 4 years “of correctional work without internment.”
The convicted were grouped into six cases for which 129 people were prosecuted, only one was acquitted and another has received 4 years “correctional work without internment”
The note from the Supreme Court states that the defendants had committed and provoked “serious disturbances and acts of vandalism with the purpose of destabilizing public order, collective security and citizen tranquility.”
In the cases of the Toyo corner protests, they claim to have been able to demonstrate that the accused were trying to “subvert the constitutional order, violently. They threw stones and bottles at various officials, law enforcement officials, National Revolutionary Police facilities, patrol cars; they overturned a motorcycle and cars belonging to the Municipal Assembly of People’s Power and caused injuries to other people and serious material damage”.
Those protests provided the most iconic image of that day, an overturned police patrol and a young man with a Cuban flag on it that has become irrefutable evidence for the courts of violence that they attribute solely to the protesters.
Regarding the events in La Güinera, the note states that the accused neighbors “went out into the streets of that territory and called on passers-by and neighbors to join them; they threw stones, sticks, bottles and Molotov cocktails at agents of the Ministry of the Interior and other workers from state institutions present at the scene, who were injured. The defendants also besieged the Unit of the National Revolutionary Police of the Capri district for several hours.”
The statement does not refer at any time to the death of a young protesterDiubis Laurencio Tejeda, shot in the back by a police officer.
The statement does not refer at any time to the death of a young protester, Diubis Laurencio Tejeda, who was shot in the back by a police officer.
The court also affirms that the events were organized, despite the fact that the protests arose spontaneously in San Antonio de los Baños (province of Artemisa), and began to replicate throughout the rest of the country, animated one in full view of the other by social networks. He also considers it an aggravating circumstance that they were carried out during the pandemic, when there were exceptional measures to avoid crowds.
As usual, the note highlights the adherence to legality that has been followed in the processes, despite the numerous complaints that have been made not only from the opposition and Cuban human rights organizations, but also international and independent, of violating human rights. .
The most harshly sanctioned were Dayron Martín Rodríguez and Miguel Páez Estiven, to 30 years in prison; Wilmer Moreno Suárez, at 26; Roberto Pérez Ortega, Luis Frómeta Compet and Asley Nelson Cabrera Puente, 25 years old.
With 23 years of deprivation of liberty are Walnier Luis Aguilar Rivera, Ángel Hernández Serrano, Yerandis Rillo Pao, Oscar Luis Ortíz Arrovsmeth, Robert Orlando Cairo Díaz, Denis Ojeda Álvarez, Yoandry Reinier Sayu Silva and Yoanky Báez Albornoz.
Lázaro Zamora González, José Luis Sánchez Tito and Frank Aldama Rodríguez, received 22 years in prison; and Rolando Vázquez Fleitas, Henry Fernández Pantera and Juan Emilio Pérez Estrada, 21 years old.
Finally, Katia Beirut Rodríguez, Fredy Beirut Matos, Alexander Guillermo Martínez Amoroso, Dianyi Liriano Fuentes, Alexis Sosa Ruiz, Orlando Carvajal Cabrera, Jorge Vallejo Venega, Ronald García Sánchez, Alexis Borges Wilson, Donger Soroa González and Alexander Ayllón Carvajal, were sentenced. to 20 years.
According to the sentence, the activist violated the sanction, which was imposed on him in July 2021, by having threatened a neighbor who entered his patio to steal some bananas.
The list continues with numerous convicted until it drops to 6 years in prison, the least of the prison sentences imposed. And, finally, Nelsón Nestor Rivero Garzón is the only one whose sentence is commuted to correctional work without internment.
The president of the Spain-based organization Cuba Prisoners Defenders, Javier Larrondo, told the Spanish agency EFE that the convictions are “outrageous” and have an exemplary character, since “the vast majority demonstrated peacefully.”
Against these judgments, issued in the first instance, there is an appeal to the Supreme Court.
On the other hand, the Provincial Court of Havana revoked the sanction of two years of correctional work without internment to the opponent José Díaz Silva, leader of the Opposition Movement for a New Republic (MONR), and detained since March 3.
According to the sentence, the activist violated the sanction, which was imposed on him in July 2021, by having threatened a neighbor who entered his patio to steal some bananas. In addition, he points out that he has been fined six times and has a “warning” for “meeting with people whose social conduct (sic) caused inconvenience to the neighbors.”
Cuban Prisoners Defenders affirmed in this regard that “the Cuban regime has not stopped until the activist José Díaz Silva is imprisoned”
COMPLETE LIST OF SENTENCED
With 30 years in prison. Dayron Martín Rodríguez and Miguel Páez Estiven.
With 26 years in prison. Wilmer Moreno Suarez.
With 25 years in prison. Roberto Pérez Ortega, Luis Frómeta Compet and Asley Nelson Cabrera Puente.
With 23 years in prison. Walnier Luis Aguilar Rivera, Ángel Hernández Serrano, Yerandis Rillo Pao, Oscar Luis Ortíz Arrovsmeth, Robert Orlando Cairo Díaz, Denis Ojeda Álvarez, Yoandry Reinier Sayu Silva and Yoanky Báez Albornoz.
With 22 years in prison. Lázaro Zamora González, José Luis Sánchez Tito and Frank Aldama Rodríguez.
With 21 years in prison. Rolando Vázquez Fleitas, Henry Fernández Pantera and Juan Emilio Pérez Estrada.
With 20 years in prison. Katia Beirut Rodríguez, Fredy Beirut Matos, Alexander Guillermo Martínez Amoroso, Dianyi Liriano Fuentes, Alexis Sosa Ruiz, Orlando Carvajal Cabrera, Jorge Vallejo Venega, Ronald García Sánchez, Alexis Borges Wilson, Donger Soroa González and Alexander Ayllón Carvajal.
With 19 years in prison. Duannis Dabel León Taboada, Adael Jesús Leyva Díaz, Lauren Martínez Ibáñez and Kendry Miranda Cárdenas.
With 18 years in prison. Odet Cruzata Hernández, Reinier Reynoso Valdes, Jesús Enrique Vázquez Cabrera, Marlon Brando Díaz Oliva, Dayán Gustavo Flores Brito, Oscar Bárbaro Bravo Cruzata, Yussuan Villalba Sierra, Ricardo Duque Solís, Francisco Eduardo Soler Castaneda, Elieser Gordín Rojas and Rowland Jesús Castillo Castro.
With 16 years in prison. Carlos Paul Michelena Valdés, Daisy Rodríguez Alfonso, Amaury Leyva Prieto, Kevin Damián Frómeta Castro, Juan Piloto Ferro and Luis Miguel Oña Jiménez.
With 15 years in prison. Felipe Almiral, Elier Padrón Romero, Brusnelvis Adrián Cabrera Gutiérrez, Amalio Álvarez González, Luis Armando Cruz Aguilera, Oriol Hernández Gálvez, Edel Cabrera González, Roberto Ferrer Tamayo and Harol Michel Mena Nuviola.
With 14 years in prison. Adán Kiubel Castillo Echevarría, Adrián Oljales Mora, Yunaiky de la Caridad Linares Rodríguez, Juan Carlos Morales Herrera, Amaury Fernández Martínez, Carlos Alberto Hernández Pérez, Andrius López Fragosa, Osvaldo Lugo Pita, Juan Walberto Verdecia Rodríguez and Lázaro Noel Urgelles Fajardo.
With 13 years in prison. Yunior García Vizcay, Carlos Luis Águila Socarrás, Adonay López López, Julián Yasmany Díaz Mena, Eduardo Álvarez Rigal, and Brandon David Becerra Curbelo.
With 12 years in prison. Karen Vázquez Pérez, Franyer Abad Dumet, José Luis Castillo Bolaños, Yan Carlos Martínez Bonne, Freidel Ramírez Castillo, Jarolkis Suárez Rojas, Idael Naranjo Pérez, Jesús Ramón Rodríguez Pérez, Yosney Emilio Román Rodríguez, Raudel Saborín González, Yasiel Arnaldo Córdova Rodríguez, Rafael Jesús Núñez Echenique, Elyán Seguí Cruz, Mackyani Yosney Román Rodríguez, Alejaime Lambert Reyes, Rolier Salazar González and Yurema Ramos Abad.
With 11 years in prison. Jaimel Alcide Firdó Rodríguez, Alejandro Bécquer Arias, Arielvis Rill Baró, Yaquelín Castillo García and José Luis Castillo de la Torre.
With 10 years in prison. Leoalys de la Caridad Valera Vázquez, Yunan González Terry, Raynel Mayet Frómeta, Brayan Piloto Pupo, Giuseppe Belaunzarán Guada, Santiago Vázquez León, Lázaro Daniel Cremé Bueno, Dayán Jesús Ramírez Rondón, Germán Barrenechea Echavarría and Eris Diógenes Mejías Vinent.
With 9 years in prison. Frank Daniel Roy Sotolongo, Yassell Guerra Campos, Marco Antonio Alfonso Breto and Liliana Oropesa Ferrer.
With 8 years in prison. Dariel Cruz García, Juan Yanier Antomarchi Núñez, Yurileydis Soler Abad, Félix Jesús Armada García, Eloy Bárbaro Cardoso Pedroso, Yoilán Limonta Mojena, Yosnel Daniel Castro Fernández and Frandy González León.
With 7 years in prison. Rubis Carlos Vicet Padilla, Emy Yoslán Román Rodríguez, Yensi Jorge Machado González and Wilfredo Limonta Mesa.
With 6 years in prison. José Antonio González Guerrero and Yeinier Ibáñez Boudet.
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