MIAMI, United States. – The Cuban regime released the political prisoner Eladio Real Suárez this Thursday after 29 years in prison, a sentence imposed in 1994 for disembarking on the island as part of an armed expedition from the United States.
The first photos of Real Suárez after his release were posted on Facebook by her daughter, Lizi Real.
Previously, the authorities of the Cuban regime informed the family that Real Suárez, 54, who could leave the Agüica prison, in Matanzas, this Thursday starting at 9:00 in the morning, according to a report by the Spanish agency EFE.
As explained by Graciela Suárez Díaz, the opponent’s mother, the Cuban regime has urged him to appear at an Migration office after he is released to regularize his situation in the country.
However, Suárez Díaz indicated, his son’s desire is to emigrate to the United States as soon as possible. His daughter and her brother reside in the northern country.
At the age of 26, Eladio Real Suárez was sentenced to 30 years in prison after disembarking in Cuba in 1994 on an armed expedition from the United States.
Initially he had been sentenced to death, but in 2010 the sentence was commuted to 30 years by the Supreme Court of Cuba, thanks to strong international pressure.
After knowing the possible release, the Assembly of the Cuban Resistance (ARC)based in Miami, recalled that during his years in prison “Humberto was the victim of countless mistreatment and torture (…), such as cruel mock firing squads for more than 10 years.”
In 2020, Real Suárez was recognized with the “Pedro Luis Boitel Freedom Award”, which is awarded annually by the Cuban Democratic Directorate (DDC) in recognition “of the exceptional work and leadership of the resistance within Cuba that promotes a change towards democracy”. on the island.
