HAVANA, Cuba.- “In Cuba there is a command of assassins guarded by an army without principles, morals, values, and much less heart,” he told CubaNet the political prisoner Jorge Luis Boada Valdes, imprisoned in the 1580 penitentiary with a sentence of nine years in prison for painting phrases against Miguel Díaz-Canel in public places in Havana.
In a phone call to this media, Boada Valdés spoke about his unfair sanction and on his family, which he claims they want to destroy.
“The objective is to destroy me along with my family, since they deprived me of all my rights by erasing my true imputed sanction which was ‘contempt’, from one to three years of deprivation of freedom, to lead me to a greater sanction,” he said.
The political prisoner was tried on November 2, 2023, at the Diez de Octubre Court, accused of the crimes of “enemy propaganda” and “other acts against State Security.”
The Cuban Prosecutor’s Office requested a sentence of 15 years in prison.
“The second (crime) with three clauses, a) that I carried firearms to enter his home, b) that I incited the masses on his property and c) that I committed an attack against him,” he said.
At the beginning of May, Boada Valdés received the sentence of nine years in prison after six months of waiting, a sentence with which he does not agree, he said. The young man will have to serve four and a half years in prison and the other four and a half on the street if he behaves well in prison.
“Their goal is to defeat me, but I will continue to fight for my freedom and that of my country and to let the world know that there is a commando of assassins in Cuba (…). If it is a lie, show me and the whole world that Cuba is a free country and not a dictatorship in every sense,” he said.
The young prisoner also asked the world to pay attention to his parents, “who are devastated, tired and do not know how they will react to my unjust confinement.”
“I find myself tied hand and foot, but I will never stop supporting my people and my country,” he added.
Boada Valdés was arrested in February 2022 after writing signs with the phrase “Díaz-Canel, singao” on a wall in the Havana neighborhood of Lawton, taking photos of the event and sharing it on his social networks.
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