Havana/Ernesto Borges Pérez, former agent of Cuban counterintelligence sentenced to 30 years in prison for spying for the United States, left this Thursday from jail, after having turned 27 years. His brother, César, waited for him from seven in the morning at the door of the east combined, in Havana, where he fulfilled his sentence.
It was not fulfilled, thus, the fear of various opponents and organizations, which had launched various calls to the international community. “Currently, Ernesto has turned 27 of his sentence, and his release is scheduled for April 24, 2025, considering prison benefits that the prison years count as 10 months instead of 12,” explained a request for a request for Change.org Started by Betty Guerra Perdomo, premium of political prisoners Nadir and Jorge Martín Perdomo and human rights activist.
The restlessness of the activists came from the pattern of the regime to create “new positions to prevent their release”, something that happened, for example, with Miguel Díaz Bauzá. 81 years and with more than 30 prison behind them, it is about older political prisoner on the island. At first sentenced to 25 years in prison in 1994, for “infiltration”, “illegal entry to the country”, “terrorism” and “other acts against state security”, added a sentence of another 25 years in 2002 – which finally left in a “joint penalty” of 30 years – for joining a protest in the kilo 8 prison, in Camagüey, to demand better conditions.
“His case has been documented in several sources, such as Uncommon Sense, which describes him as a ‘Jack Bauer Cuban'”
In the case of Borges, former counter -espionage captain and operating games of the Ministry of Interior, was arrested in 1998, when he was 32 years old, after trying to deliver classified information to an American diplomat about 26 Cuban spies, and sentenced in a secret military trial. The Prosecutor’s Office requested for him, initially, death penalty.
“His case has been documented in several sources, such as Uncommon Sense, who describes him as a ‘Jack Bauer Cuban’ for his role and critical awareness developed during his time in Moscow during Perestroika and the Glasnost”, Pointed out the petition, which achieved 714 firms of the 1,000 that was aimed at.
Borges faces, the text said, “serious health problems”, which include cataracts that have left it “almost blind”, and was in “precarious conditions”: “His situation is particularly alarming given his long imprisonment and the conditions of the cells, described as semi -cures and with little ventilation, which aggravates his state.”
The requirement for his release was also done by Justice 11J last month, the day Borges turned 59, indicating that he was in prison “for daring to expose the spying machine of the Cuban regime.” In addition, he denounced: “He has remained long seasons in solitary cells and has been exposed to extreme conditions, with very little solar and artificial lighting, in a deliberate attempt of the regime to break his will. He has suffered serious and multiple health problems, in relation to the dozen diseases he suffers, among them, nine chronicles, due to the infrahuman prison conditions.”
The political prisoner obtained a brief departure permit to visit his home, For the first time, in 202022 years after entering jail. With several restrictions: I could not make public statements or move, by the sanitary measures in force then by the Covid-19 pandemic.
