The family of Andy García Lorenzo, one of the Santa Clara prisoners for going out to protest peacefully on July 11, confirmed this Wednesday that the sentence against the young man is four years in prison, after receiving the sentence in their hands. The rapper Randy Arteaga, prosecuted in the same trial, received five years in prison.
Along with them, another 14 protesters received sentences of between three and seven years. “Very high sentences, because in Santa Clara, like other places, a store was not broken and absolutely nothing happened in the demonstration,” García Lorenzo’s brother-in-law denounced on Twitter, Jonathan Lopezwho reported: “With the sentence, we confirm that Andy was sentenced to 4 years without evidence.”
The news had been advanced this Tuesday by his partner and Andy’s sister, Roxana García Lorenzo, who in a direct transmission He said that a relative of another prisoner had told him. “There are many families destroyed, many families without consolation for all this,” said the young woman, who protests indignantly at having received the sentence more than three months after the trial against her brother was held.
Andy García Lorenzo was prosecuted on January 10 in Santa Clara, together with 15 other protesters who took to the streets on July 11, and the Prosecutor’s Office asked for seven years in prison for public disorder, contempt and attack. “You can’t say it was a trial, because it was a clown, it was a paripé, what they did there was a circus,” her sister recalled in her video on Tuesday, “because the evidence didn’t show it, because it was the word of the police against theirs, because it was all a farce”.
“There are many families destroyed, many families without consolation for all this”
Since he was detained, his family has been one of the most active in defending political prisoners and freedom of expression, and has repeatedly denounced the harassment of State Security to which she is subjected.
Andy’s father, Nedel Garcia Pacheco, He was stabbed on February 4, while I was fishing with some friends. An acquaintance began to hurl insults at the imprisoned son, then lunged at him with a knife.
At that time, Roxana García blamed State Security for the event: “Because in case it is not directly to blame, it is indirectly due to all the hatred it has spread through the media against the 9/11 protesters. July”.
Earlier, in January, the family sent a letter to the governor of Villa Clara, Alberto López Díaz, to denounce the “damages and losses” that the “systematic harassment” to which they are being subjected is causing them.
Signed by Roxana García, Jonatan López Alonso, and his parents, Pedro Osvaldo López Mesa and Yenia Alonso Melgarejo, the letter said it was based on the “right to complain” enshrined in article 61 of the Constitution “and as a preliminary step before a possible lawsuit and supervening access to competent human rights organizations”.
Roxana herself signed another letter, sent by the organization Prisoners Defenders to 32 diplomatic delegations present on the Island, in which she denounced that her brother, “detained under forced disappearance” and “convicted of conscience,” has been subjected to “torture, beatings, threats of up to 30 years in prison and to be shot if he does not retract his position of conscience”.
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