The Blanco Ladies activist is currently in the Dominican Republic, along with her husband and two of her three daughters (the smallest).
Havana, Cuba. – “Everything was very fast; I was imprisoned until the last moment, until they left me at the airport and I could leave for the Dominican Republic,” declared to Cubanet the activist of the ladies of Blanco Aymara Nieto Muñoz, after have been banished on Monday by the Cuban regime in exchange for his freedom.
The opponent, who is currently in the Dominican Republic with her husband, activist Ismael Boris Reñí, and two of her daughters (the smallest), said that, thanks to her family, she is “free from the prisons of Cuba.”
“As everyone knows, the security of the State was always threatening that if I was not going to the country I would continue to be held. All they did was to press me to leave the country. My family was able to solve a visa for Dominican and, as soon as security knew, they did not allow me to go to my house more,” he told this medium the political expreasing.
Nieto Muñoz was taken from the Villa Delicias correctional work camp, where he was in a minor severity regime, at 6:00 a.m. on Monday, August 11 and directly taken to the “José Martí” International Airport, without even being able to say goodbye to his eldest daughter, his three granddaughters and his mother, who remained on the island.
“It is very painful to have to leave with one part of the family and that the other has stayed in the regime. I feel happy on one part and sad for another, because I would like to have my whole family here,” the activist confessed.
He also said he will continue to fight for the freedom of Cuba and political prisoners even if he is outside the island.
Before being banished, Nieto Muñoz turned three and nine months in jail. Although the Headquarters of Villa Delicias had approved the benefit of probation in his favor, the Provincial Court of Havana never authorized to execute the measure.
The Blanco Ladies activist was sentenced in 2018 to four years of deprivation of liberty for the crimes of “attack” and “Damage to the property”, a condemnation that extinguished in 2022. However, while he was serving prison she was accused of leading a riot in the Women’s Women’s jail (known as the Guatao), and sentenced for the second time for the second time for five years and four more years and four more years. In total, he remained eight years in prison.
