Yoan de la Cruz, who last July 11 made the live broadcast One of the first protests in San Antonio de los Baños that spread throughout the country, has been sentenced to six years in prison by a court, as announced on Tuesday by his mother, Maribel Cruz, on her Facebook profile.
“So that all my family and friends know, who have always cared about Yoan. Today we learned his sentence: 6 years left him. As a mother I feel like dying, it is very sad and hard what you feel for so much injustice, but God It is great and one day so much injustice will be paid for,” he wrote. The Prosecutor’s Office asked for eight years for him.
Until the day of his trial, the young man remained almost incommunicado in the Melena del Sur prison, Mayabeque, where he will serve the rest of his sentence.
Until the day of his trial, the young man remained almost incommunicado in the prison of Melena del Sur, Mayabeque, where he will serve the rest of his sentence.
The judgment of the 11J protesters in San Antonio de los Baños has taken three months to come out. The trial began on December 15 and the sentences were expected to be announced last week.
The deployment of a wide operation in the city It led some activists to think that it would be made public on Wednesday, March 16, but in the end it was due to the presence of officials of the Communist Party of Cuba in different areas of Artemisa.
The case of Yoan de la Cruz gave rise to a wide mobilization in social networks organizations, relatives and friends since he was detained on July 23. The main argument for his defense was the strictly peaceful presence of the young man.
“So big that they think they feel that a young man with a telephone in his hand shakes the house of cards in which they live,” said one of his friends a few days after his arrest.
“He did not throw a stone, he did not break a window, he did not hit anyone, no one shouted below. Please, let him go now,” said another of the many colleagues who mobilized for his release. “You have a mother, a grandmother, a family and thousands of friends suffering.”
Yoel Sosa Gómez is in Miami waiting for his political asylum to be processed
Both the conviction of De la Cruz and those of 128 other defendants in Havana show how the regime has been cruel to the demonstrators of the most symbolic places of 11J. The sentences of the latter, released last week, add up, in years of prison, 1,916. The 128 were present in Toyo, where the demonstrators managed to overturn a police patrol, and in La Güinera, where a police officer killed Diubis Laurencio Tejeda from behind.
According to the calculations of the organization Justicia 11J, which works together with Cubalex, there are still 158 sentences that must be delivered shortly, the notification of 333 affecting 518 people has been documented and at least 1,442 were detained at some point. For all those who have not yet been tried, they ask for an immediate release.
Yoel Sosa Gómez, on the other hand, escaped from a sentence of five years of correctional work with internment, who, before receiving the sentence of the trial, managed to escape from the Island. The young man, from Vegas, Mayabeque, who granted a Interview granted to América TeVé, is the father of a five-year-old girl and fled Cuba by sea. He is now in Miami waiting for his political asylum to be processed.
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