The Cuban authorities prevented this Thursday the mothers of three prisoners for the July 11 protests from boarding a flight of the Spanish airline Iberia in Havana bound for Madrid, denounced the NGO Cuban Observatory of Human Rights.
Liset Fonseca and Marta Perdomo, mothers of Robert Perez Fonsecaand of Jorge and Nadir Martin Perdomowere scheduled to meet with representatives of the European Parliament, the European Union External Action Service (EEAS), and UN Human Rights organizations, in Madrid, Brussels and Geneva.
“As part of the abuse, they allowed them to obtain their boarding pass, in order to cancel the possibility of a flight change or a refund of the Iberia ticket,” the organization said in a statement.
“As part of the abuse, they allowed them to obtain their boarding pass, in order to cancel the possibility of a flight change or a refund of the Iberia ticket”
He also condemned this action as a “clear violation of human rights” by the Government of Cuba.
Fonseca told the newspaper Cubanet that an Immigration official took the documentation of both when they had already dispatched the bags and made them wait about 30 minutes and then informed them that they could not travel.
“He just told us that we were regulated and that she did not know why,” said the mother, whose youngest son, Alberto Ortega Fonseca, was traveling from Canada – where he lives – and hoped to meet her in Madrid for the first time in eight years.
“We are exhausted and enduring one more blow. Add to that that the luggage does not appear and they beat us up,” added Fonseca. According to Cubanet, late at night, the two women were still waiting for their bags to be returned.
Roberto Pérez Fonseca, 38 years old, was sentenced to 10 years in prison, for the crimes of contempt, attack, incitement to commit a crime and public disorder, which were charged to him for his participation in the protest in San Jose de Las Lajas.
In the cases of Jorge and Nadir Martín Perdomo, 28 and 37 years old, also imprisoned for the 11J demonstrations in San José de las Lajas, they were sentenced to eight and six years in prison, respectively, both accused of the crimes of “instigation to commit crimes, public disorder, contempt and spread of epidemics”.
“The human rights situation in Cuba is becoming more serious every day. Society is suffocated by so much injustice and lack of future,” added the NGO, based in Spain, on its Twitter account.
“The situation of human rights in Cuba is becoming more serious every day. Society is suffocated by so much injustice and lack of future”
The Attorney General of the Republic of Cuba (FGR) reported on Monday that so far the courts have issued 76 final judgments against 381 people “who attacked the constitutional order and stability” of the socialist state. The FGR statement indicated that 78% of those sanctioned (297) received sentences of up to 25 years in prison.
Most of the crimes for which they were accused are sedition, sabotage, robbery with force and violence, attack, contempt and public disorder. A total of 36 protesters were convicted of the most serious and sentenced to sentences ranging from 5 to 25 years in prison.
Relatives of those convicted and non-governmental organizations have criticized the processes, to which the international press has not had access, alleging lack of guarantees, fabrication of evidence and high sentences.
The NGO Prisoners Defenders points out that at least 842 people were in prison on the island at the end of 2021 for political reasons, mostly for the events of July 11.
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