MIAMI, United States. – The NGO justice 11jarose from the repressive wave unleashed by the Cuban regime after the anti-government protests of July 2021fears that the high sentences against demonstrators are a strategy of the State to obtain concessions from the United States and the European Union (EU).
“We are opposed to the fact that the high sanctions against demonstrators are part of a strategy of the Cuban State to obtain concessions from the European Union and the United States, in exchange for reductions that could be symbolic or not very decisive,” the NGO tweeted in a long thread where he updates on the sanctions applied to numerous protesters.
The working group had access to three new sentences corresponding to protesters in Havana, issued during the past week. The first of them (Case 68/2022) convicted the Cubans Marlon Hitachi Paz Bravo (22 years of age, six years in prison) for the alleged crimes of public disorder, attack, resistance and contempt; and Jandys González Mujica (30, eight years in prison); Maikel González Mura (42, six years in prison).
As part of the same cause, Yamilka Pérez Naranjo (39, four years sentence); Roxana Miriam Perdomo Quesada (22 years, four years in prison); Osvaldo Canto Piedra (27, five years in prison); Gabriel de la Concepción Portal (30, five years in prison); Armando José Aguilar Nevot (53, two years in prison); and Yerandy Acosta Jiménez (42, two years in prison).
Justice 11J also recalled that “after strong campaigns in networks and hunger and thirst strikes, the professor Peter Albert64 years old and a cancer patient, was sentenced to five years of limited freedom.
“After his release, Pedro Albert led a solo walk last Sunday for the release of political prisoners, as a result of which he was arbitrarily detained for a few hours,” the organization added.
In the case of Cause 8/2022, they were sentenced with deprivation of liberty, for the alleged crime of sedition, Lázaro Yurisan Sarduy Basaure (30, 14 years of sentence); Lázaro Osmel Salinas Hernández (25, 15 years of sentence); Yoslien Rodríguez Roa (39, 11 years of sentence); Yunier Sánchez Rodríguez (36, 11 years of sentence); Deyvis Javier Torres Acosta (30, 10 years in prison); Carlos Pérez Cosme (35, 10 years of sentence); and Reinier Borrell Lebrigio (35, 10 years in prison).
In addition, Alcides Peró Candó (33) and Manuel Alberto Bermúdez Sardiñas (34), both with five years in prison, were sanctioned with correctional work without internment.
Lastly, as part of Case 9/2022, and for the alleged crime of sedition, Yemny Yak was sentenced to imprisonment (seven years in prison); Luis Alberto (12 years old); Ihazmell (five years old), Yosandri (10 years old); and Yurien Rogelio (11 years old).
Meanwhile, Alejandro Rodríguez Chávez (29) was sentenced to five years of limited liberty; Agustín Jonathan Vargas Díaz (18) to five years of correctional work without internment; and Aldo Delgado Romero (47) to five years of correctional work with internment.
“According to our records, at least 33 people are still pending trial with a prosecutor’s request, and more than 200 could also be pending prosecution (we have not had an update on their cases),” said Justice 11J.
“For the protesters and political prisoners in general, we want the acquittal and free and total dismissal, as a response to the claims of civil society and as a primary duty of the State, and not as a bargaining chip in the political arena,” the NGO concluded. .
