The Attorney General of the Republic of Cuba (FGR) reported four final judgments against 33 participants from the July anti-government protestswho had filed appeals against their sanctions.
In a note released this Thursday, the FGR indicated that the Supreme People’s Court of Cuba (TSJ) notified it on June 14 and 15 of the resolutions of these cases, all in the provinces of Havana and Mayabeque.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, “30 were sanctioned with prison sentences (20 between five and ten years, and 10 between ten and 18 years), while two were subsidized for correctional work without internment, and one case for limitation of liberty; that do not imply in these two cases —in principle, under the condition of good behavior—, their admission to prison.”
INFORMATION FROM THE ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE OF THE REPUBLIC ON THE CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS DERIVED FROM THE RIOTS CAUSED ON JULY 11, 2021https://t.co/p1dbUq5vke
– Cuban Prosecutor’s Office (@FGR_Cuba) June 16, 2022
The sanctions correspond “fundamentally” to the crimes of sedition, sabotage and public disorder.
One of the appeals to which the FGR refers —and to which the agency has had access Eph—reduced the sentences of up to 15 years in prison for 17 people who demonstrated in the Havana neighborhood of La Güinera. In total, these sentences add up to 206 years in prison with individual cases of up to 17 years.
A case that particularly worries the NGOs that have followed up on the sentences, such as Justicia11J, is that of the sixty-year-old Fredy Beirut, who has received a sentence of nine years in prison. Beirut, underlines Eff, He was sentenced along with his daughter Katia, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison after receiving a reduction of a decade in her original sentence.
The trials against the 11J protesters have been taking place in Cuba since the end of 2021. As reported by the Prosecutor’s Office three days ago, the country’s courts had issued 76 final sentences against 381 people for the protests, not counting the four that released this Thursday.
Cuban Prosecutor Confirms Sanctions Against 381 People for July 2021 Protests
Relatives of those convicted and NGOs have criticized these actions, alleging lack of guarantees, fabrication of evidence and high sentences. Foreign media do not have access to the trials and Amnesty International requested to be able to attend the trials.
For its part, the Cuban Supreme Court ensures that due process has been observed in all cases opened as a result of the 11J protests.
Efe/OnCuba.
