The Cuban Prosecutor’s Office places 381 people firmly convicted after the 11J demonstrations, which for the Public Ministry are people “who attacked the constitutional order and stability” of the socialist state.
In a official note released this Monday, when the time to request the review has elapsed, the Prosecutor’s Office indicates that 76 sentences no longer admit appeal and have resulted in sentences of deprivation of liberty for 297 people, of which 36 committed a crime of sedition, according to the Cuban judges. All the people convicted of these acts received between 5 and 25 years in prison.
Most of those convicted, including 16 to 18-year-olds, were found guilty of sedition, sabotage, robbery with force and violence, assault, contempt and public disorder.
Most of those convicted, including 16 to 18-year-olds, were found guilty of sedition, sabotage, robbery with force and violence, assault, contempt and public disorder.
In addition, there are 84 people who have had their sentence commuted to other alternatives that include correctional work without internment and limitation of liberty, always conditional on good conduct. 15 of the 16 minors are in this case.
Andy García Lorenzo, one of the prisoners from whom he was released at the end of May, only enjoyed two days with his family. After going to find out about his new location in a workplace, the young man was arrested and the measure was presumably revoked in a possible case of this type. García Lorenzo had made two political demonstrations on his social networks in his short free time.
One month ago, the organizations Cubalex and Justicia 11J made public a count according to which barely 40 people had received a response to their appeals and only one obtained a significant change of measure, going from one year in prison to acquittal. In some 32 cases the sentence was kept intact while in the rest the modifications were negligible, changing the form of imprisonment or reducing the length of internment by one month.
A month ago, the organizations Cubalex and Justicia 11J published a count according to which only 40 people had received a response to their appeals and only one obtained a significant change of measure.
Among the trials with the most convictions for sedition is that of La Güinera, in Havana, whose appeals were mostly held at the end of last month. In it, María Luisa Fleita Bravo, mother of Rolando Vásquez Fleita, one of the convicted, staged the tiredness of mothers of many affected, when he burst out shouting in front of the Court: “We are tired of putting up with all this”.
Many families have appealed on the advice of 9/11 prisoners’ rights organizations because, despite the fact that success is almost always impossible, they felt they had to make a point of simply asserting their disagreement.
However, the trust of the families is null, since there are repeated occasions that it has been revealed, in the mouth of their own leadersthat the Cuban Justice works to safeguard the socialist system, as provided for in the Magna Carta.
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