Havana Cuba. – From the Guantanamo Provincial Prison, a penitentiary center of maximum rigor located in the easternmost of the Cuban provinces, the young Dionis Omar Revé Quiala denounces that since June 2022 he has been imprisoned in that facility without having been tried or convicted; he hasn’t even received notice of tax petition.
Through a phone call, Dionis Omar Revé Quiala announced that he is currently 18 years old and that he resides in the main city of the province. According to his statements, on December 25, 2020 (he was 16 years old) he stoned a state currency store. In retaliation for this action, on February 7, 2021, he was arrested and initially sent to a Police unit, to be later transferred to the Technical Department of Investigations (DTI) of the province. There they kept him imprisoned for a period of three months. After that period, they sent him to the provincial prison, where he remained until February 7, 2022, the date he was released.
However, the young man assured, after being released he continued to suffer constant harassment from State Security agents by order of Lieutenant Colonel Rubén Fernández Anderson, head of that repressive body in the area.
In June 2022, he said, he was with his girlfriend at a party when another boy, also a minor, allegedly attacked him on the orders of the agents. Revé Quiala explains that he defended himself from the attack and in the middle of the fight he injured the attacker’s finger on his left hand, for which he received two stitches.
The young man added that, as punishment for the incident, he was imprisoned again, this time accused of minor injuries, although, as he stressed, to date he has not received the corresponding notification of the prosecutor’s petition, nor has a trial been held. much less has it been officially sanctioned.
In addition to the above, Revé Quiala emphasized that the prolonged imprisonment without trial would be motivated by the intention of the authorities to allow time for him to come of age, to try and sentence him as an adult for his subversive activities.
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