Havana Cuba. – From the open regime penitentiary establishment Los Caneyes, in Santa Clara, the political prisoner Marcos de la Luz Caballero Granados denounces the official media of the Island for using his image as part of a smear campaign against the opposition in Cuba.
Through a phone call, 22-year-old Caballero Granados announced that he has been imprisoned since February 11, 2020 for allegedly writing posters against the Castro dictatorship, something that he stressed has not been proven.
The young man emphasized his intention to denounce the television program with edge, since he maintains that for a long time and frequently that space has been dedicated to disseminating his image within the framework of a discredit campaign against the opposition inside and outside the Island, to which they refer with offensive and infamous names such as “terrorists”. The program with edge It is broadcast on the Cubavisión channel on Tuesdays and Thursdays at night, at the end of the National Television Newscast (NTV).
In the same way, Caballero Granados indicated that he is serving a 10-year sentence of deprivation of liberty for the alleged crimes of “other acts against the security of the State”, “continuous enemy propaganda” and “continuous contempt”. .
The political prisoner also indicated that he had already been imprisoned previously, on March 19, 2018, in retaliation for writing posters against the dictatorship when he was barely 17 years old. On that occasion, he said, he spent five and a half months behind bars without trial, until he was released after his mother paid a fine of 500 pesos.
Caballero Granados also indicated that he was prosecuted in case number six of the year 2020, the same one in which Pável de la Caridad Rubio Marrero, 25, was tried, who was sentenced to eight years in prison for the alleged crimes of “other acts against the security of the State”, “disrespect” and “enemy propaganda”.
Two other minors were also sentenced in the same case. The trial was held at the Municipal People’s Court of Oct. 10.
Attacks on the reputation of activists, independent journalists and opponents are among the most repressive tactics used by the Havana regime. This procedure is in clear contradiction with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, according to which “no one shall be the object of arbitrary interference with his private life, his family, his home or his correspondence, nor of attacks on his honor or reputation”. .
