His release was part of an agreement between Havana and Vatican; There are already five beneficiaries of that pact that have been returned to prison.
Madrid, Spain.- The Cuban regime revoked the home imprisonment of the political prisoner Marlon Brando Díaz Oliva and returned it to prison, the Cuban Observatory of Human Rights (OCDH) denounced this Thursday, based in Madrid.
Díaz Oliva, sentenced in the first instance to 18 years of deprivation of liberty for the alleged crime of sedition after participating in the popular protests of July 11, 2021 (11J), was in a regime of home seclusion since the beginning of this year.
“Marlon Brando Díaz Oliva was returned to prison after revoking the home imprisonment that had been granted in January,” the OCDH said through his X account, after confirmation of people close to the young man.
Consulted by CubanetYaxys Cires, strategy director of the Observatory, explained that they have not yet had access to the judicial order that justifies the change of measure. “But, knowing the arbitrariness in this, it could have been to be at the wrong time and place or for an answer that the police have not liked, anything,” he said.
Díaz Oliva was among the 15 sentenced by the 11J demonstrations in the corner of Toyo and In the güinerain Havana.
His liberation was part of the releases that included 553 people, in the context of an alleged agreement between the Cuban government and the Vatican for the celebration of the ordinary jubilee of 2025. After the death of Pope Francis, there are already five exchanged for said agreement that the regime has returned to prison, among them José Daniel Ferrer and Félix Navarro.
Since the beginning of the process, various organizations alerted about the lack of guarantees for the benefited political prisoners and denounced that the Cuban government continues to use these releases as an instrument of diplomatic pressure and currency of change before the international community.
