Relatives of several political prisoners imprisoned after the protests on July 11 in Cuba addressed a letter to the governor Miguel Díaz-Canel to ask for the freedom of all those who participated in that demonstration. The document, to which 14ymedio had access, it was delivered this Monday to the Office of Attention to the Population of the Council of State and collects more than 150 signatures, including that of a group of friends who support the detainees.
Barbara Farrat Guillén, mother of the 17-year-old Jonathan Torres Farrat, was the promoter of the initiative with her husband Orlando Ramírez. In the letter, an amnesty, pardon or dismissal is requested from the hundreds of political prisoners of 11J and they demand from Díaz-Canel “a gesture of height” that will put an end to the suffering of the families when they are separated from their loved ones.
“They are our sons and daughters, our fathers and mothers, our brothers and sisters, our husbands and wives, our partners. Our boys and girls. The latter above all who, according to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, signed and ratified by Cuba, they should never have been imprisoned or they should already be in their homes. And they deserve to be with us, sharing with our families, all humble, fighters and workers, “they point out.
They consider that the prosecution requests “are disproportionate” and believe that if their relatives were convicted, an injustice would be committed. In addition, they believe that both the Cuban judicial system and the Cuban government “should stop and reflect on the fact that damage, whatever it may be, is not repaired with an injustice” and that “the exercise of constitutional rights is not a crime.”
“They deserve to be with us, sharing with our families, all humble, fighters and workers”
In his text the relatives remember that the young man Diubis Laurencio Tejeda died in the heat of the protests, killed by a bullet in the back on July 12 at the hands of the Police but they insist on warning that “no police officer was killed, no official had to be hospitalized and very few properties, taking into account the magnitude from the protests, they suffered definitive damage. “
They then highlight that the detainees “are asked for sentences of between one and 27 years for alleged crimes of incitement to crime, attack, resistance, sabotage, public disorder, damage to property and for the strong crime of sedition that, we understand, it applies primarily in times of war. “
This Tuesday, as Farrat reported to this newspaper, the State Security official who has been harassing her for weeks and who identifies himself as Rober, called her by phone to threaten to prosecute her for sedition if she “continued to post on social networks.” or “he kept encouraging families to get out.”
In addition, he told her that other charges could be added to her son. “He stressed to me many times not to meet any more mothers and not to encourage them to join us because all my actions were going to have an impact on the child,” added Farrat.
The Justice 11J platform and the Cubalex legal information center collect a figure of 1,314 detainees by the 11J of which at least 696 remain in prisons while 570 have already been released and others are awaiting trial under a precautionary measure house arrest or bail.
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