Madrid Spain.- Cuban anti-establishment rapper and former political prisoner Denis Solís González suffers from extreme poverty in Serbia, a country where he has been in exile since November 2021.
“We warn of the extremely poor situation of Denis Solís, a singer prisoner of conscience recognized by @ONU_es strongly threatened to leave Cuba,” reported the human rights organization Prisoners Defenders through the social network Twitter.
The NGO also recalled that the musician, a member of the San Isidro Movement (MSI), arrived in Serbia “monitored and escorted by police.”
We warn of the extremely poor situation of Denis Solís, a singer who is a prisoner of conscience recognized by @ONU_en strongly threatened to leave #Cuba
Guarded and escorted by policemen to the airport, he arrived in Serbia, where he lives in extreme poverty.
Help, Denis Solís (+381) 643526028 pic.twitter.com/4Ex5oZPY33— Prisoners Defenders (@CubanDefenders) June 20, 2022
As confirmed by Denis Solís to CyberCubain the Serbian city of Novi Sad, where he currently resides, there is “a particular communism that does not give any help to refugees.”
After serving eight months in prison for the alleged crime of contempt, the young man opponent He was released in July 2021. The protesting musician had been arrested on November 9, 2020 and taken to the Valle Grande prison, where he was barely able to communicate with family and friends to offer information about the summary process to which he was subjected.
The musician was tried and sentenced by the Municipal Court of Old Havana in a summary trial just two days after his arrest, which led to the quartering and hunger strike of several Cuban artists and activists at the headquarters of the San Isidro Movement, in November 2020.
The raid of the institution by the Cuban authorities and the arrest of the activists on November 26, provoked the historic demonstration of more than 500 people outside the Ministry of Culture, on November 27, 2020.
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