MIAMI, United States. – The Cuban regime denied, for the second time, conditional release to the 11J political prisoner Reyna Yacnara Barreto Batista, according to the young woman’s own brother, Hansel Oms Batista, in a statement. a Facebook post.
Barreto Batista was sentenced to four years of correctional labor with confinement for her participation in the protests of July 11, 2021. The regime prosecuted her for the alleged crimes of “attack” and “public disorder.”
“Almost two years and five months after the start of his sentence, he has been denied absolutely all the available resources for his conditional release,” said his brother. “The first request took more than nine months to finally receive a negative response, as with this second one.”
Oms Batista also said that, between one request for parole and another, the Cuban authorities ignored “the plea” of the mother of both, Reyna Luiza Batista Silva.
“According to the prison officials themselves, the connotation of her ‘crime’ is the reason why any possibility of benefit to her is always cancelled,” the young man said.
In September 2023, the regime denied for the first time the request for parole filed by the defense of the political prisoner. That time, according to The young woman’s mother explained to Cuba DiaryThe authorities’ reasons for denying this benefit were the “connotation and dangerousness of the crime”, in reference to the crime of “attack”.
“When she started serving her sentence, they told us that she had this right after serving one third of her sentence, that is, one year and four months, and that she also had another 55 days of reduction. But that’s all, they do what they want and they set the laws,” added Batista Silva.
Reyna Yacnara Barreto, who had no criminal record at the time of her arrest, was the youngest woman tried in Camagüey for the 11J protests.
“The evidence and testimony presented against him in the trials do not justify the aggression he received, much less the sentence imposed on him,” he said. Cuba’s Time.
On July 11, 2021, Barreto Batista defended herself from three police officers who sought to neutralize her during the protests that day, in Camagüey. Although one of them He even kicked her in the legthe regime used the evidence (captured on video) to incriminate her.
“Reyna is not being punished for a crime, but for her firmness in judgment,” the journalist said on Facebook. Henry Constantindirector of Cuba’s Time.
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