Yoandi Montiel Hernández, known as The Cuban Cat, He was released from jail this Wednesday, after last weekend get a permit to visit your family.
He himself reported it immediately by a direct transmission. “They thought they were going to turn off one and they didn’t turn me off,” said the influencer, who was sentenced to two years in prison for the crime of contempt after launching criticisms against the regime in his broadcasts on social networks.
“Just throw and I am stunned”, Montiel apologizes in the video, in which he thanks all the support received from outside and assures that inside the prison they did not make it easy for him. “They did not give me a minimum probation, they did not give me the reduction of two months that they have to give me, nothing, I threw it back.”
“They didn’t change me, I came out the same,” he repeats. “I have not breached anything”
In the images, the activist asserts that he is going to “talk to everyone” and “tell everything.” “They didn’t change me, I came out the same,” he repeats. “I have not breached anything.”
He influencers He was arrested at his home on April 12, 2021 by an operative from the Ministry of the Interior that included about twenty police officers. The trial took place a year later. At that time, there was a possibility that the lawyers and the Prosecutor’s Office would reach an agreement so that he would be released in three or five months, but this never materialized.
Montiel was first in Villa Marista, the State Security headquarters in Havana, and then he was transferred to the Valle Grande prison, where he was until this Wednesday. During this time, the regime has rejected his family’s efforts to grant him parole and, on the contrary, in May 2022 he requested a review of his case. to raise the sentence.
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