Havana/The political dam Aymará Nieto has been forced to leave Cuba and is currently with part of his family – two small girls and his husband – in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic. In Cuba he leaves an eldest daughter who could not say goodbye to her, since the authorities denied the last visit she had planned, last Friday, August 8.
According to sources close to the situation, which have collaborated for their establishment in Dominican, it was directly driven from the prison to the airport and the phones of their relatives were intervened, without letting calls or messages enter. “This has no other name than banishment,” said activist Maria Rule Castro, who says he has been welcomed by a family in his destination.
Aymara Nieto Muñoz, a member of the ladies of Blanco and wife of former political prison
Aymara Nieto Muñoz, a member of the ladies of Blanco and wife of former political prisoner Ismael Boris Reñí, fulfilled his second consecutive sentence in the prison of forced labor Bella Delicia, in Havana, where he was from this May. His first sentence arrived in 2018, when he was imposed for four years for crimes of attack and property damage, but, while serving the sentence in the Women’s Prison of El Guatao, he was allegedly prosecuted for leading a mutiny in jail.
At that time, he received a penalty of five years and four months, and from this April he could request a change of measure to a minor severity regime. However, the Provincial Court had not yet made a decision in this regard. The Prisoner Defenders organization had denounced on several occasions that the regime conditioned its freedom to exile. “Aymara Nieto has spent a total of eight years in jail due to reasons related to its human rights activism,” the organization denounced.
