MIAMI, United States. – The Cuban regime increased the prison sentence of the protester of the 11J and political prisoner Brenda Díaz García, as announced in a twitter thread Magazine subaltern.
“In the trial session held today [martes 18 de abril]in which the accusing party appeared, the Court sentenced Brenda for ‘contempt’, adding seven months to the sentence that she was already serving,” the magazine indicated.
On the morning of this Tuesday, Ana María García, Brenda’s mother, posted on social media that he was in the Mayabeque Provincial Court, located in Güines, “waiting for another trial” for his daughter.
For his part, subaltern released an audio of Brenda, recorded while she was transferred from the prison to the room of the Mayabeque People’s Court. “They can break my body, but never my spirit. And I’m not going to give up,” says the political prisoner in the recording.
The trial against the 9/11 protester was held around noon this Tuesday, according to statements by Ana María García to subaltern. In total, the sanction of the young woman amounts to 14 years and seven months in prison.
Initially, Brenda Díaz was sentenced to 14 years in prison for the alleged crimes of continuous public disorder and sabotage. Although she is a trans woman, the regime incarcerated her in the men’s section of the Cuba-Panama prison, where she was shaved shaved and forced to wear men’s clothing.
At the beginning of this month, it transpired that Díaz would be accused of an alleged crime of contempt, after being beaten by an official from the Cuba-Panama prison.
“I don’t understand [que]If my daughter was brutally beaten and taken to a punishment cell for 15 days, she is the one who has to pay. Enough already, until when? ”, Denounced her mother on her Facebook, at that time.
According to García, on February 12, a prison guard entered the cubicle where Brenda was with her cellmate and referred to them in an offensive manner. “These fags have me tired” was the phrase to which the young woman reacted.
“There the guard struggled with her, threshed her leg with the cubicle grate and then in the dining room he grabbed her by the neck, gave her some tonfazos around her thighs and they put her in a punishment cell for 15 days,” García told subaltern.
Of the 15 days in the punishment jail, Brenda spent 12 without water to wash herself. Since her imprisonment in July 2021, her mother has not stopped calling attention to her deteriorating health and precarious medical care. Brenda suffers from kidney stones, chronic gastritis and is HIV positive.
