Prisoners Defenders denounces 999 political prisoners in Cuba currently

MIAMI, United States.- The NGO Prisoners Defenders denounced this Thursday in its most recent report that there are currently 999 political prisoners in Cuba, 880 of them after the demonstrations on Sunday, July 11, 2021.

According to the document, “from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022, a total of 1,235 political prisoners have suffered political imprisonment in Cuba,” and all have been and are tortured in Castro’s prisons.

This was “demonstrated by the detailed study of 101 random cases denounced by Prisoners Defenders before the United Nations Committee Against Torture (CAT) and the public reproaches of the CAT after the complaints from civil society, which materialized in its subsequent report of May on the situation of torture in Cuba”.

Likewise, the report of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, last June, “also confirmed that numerous boys and girls have been arrested and sentenced to very harsh sentences for exercising their freedom of demonstration and association.”

According to Prisoners Defender, at this specific time, with data closing as of June 30, 2022, the number of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in Cuba amounts to a total of 999.

These people, the report denounces, are “suffering judicial sentences, as well as provisions limiting their freedom by prosecutors without any judicial supervision, in flagrant violation of international law and due process.”

Of these 999 political prisoners, they are still serving sentences or precautionary measures:

• 33 boys and 5 girls, 38 minors in total.
• 4 girls and 19 boys, 24 minors, have already been sentenced, 15 for “sedition”, to an average sentence of 5 years in prison, after “reductions” in the appeal and cassation processes.
• 169 protesters, including 15 girls and boys, have been prosecuted for “sedition”.
• 665 sentenced prisoners of conscience are still on the list with sentences between 1 and 25 years.
• Other political prisoners carry sentences of 30 years and up to life imprisonment (12 of them)
• At least 123 women (including transgender women) still have political and conscientious convictions.

The current classification of the 999 political prisoners is as follows: 730 Convicts of Conscience, 240 Convicted of Conscience and 30 cases of Other Political Prisoners.

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