MIAMI, United States. – The Cuban political prisoner Aymara Nieto Muñoz was removed from the punishment cell where she was, but she is still waiting for a response to an appeal filed on her behalf last February, told Radio Television Martí her husband, former political prisoner Ismael Boris Reñí.
In February, after having served a previous sentence, Nieto Muñoz was prosecuted and sentenced to five years and four months in prison for an alleged riot that occurred in El Guatao.
According to Radio Televisión Martí, the appeal to the case for alleged “disorders in a penitentiary establishment” against the lady of dlanco and member of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), was presented by her husband since last 17 february.
After two months isolated in a punishment cell, without contact with his relatives, Boris Reñí assured that he currently has communication with the activist. “They took her out of the cell on the 25th of last month, the only thing she is facing is the pressure problem [arterial] and low back pain,” he said.
Last February, the People’s Provincial Court of Havana condemned to five years and four months of deprivation of liberty to Nieto Muñoz, who had been serving political prison since 2018.
The regime held a new trial against the activist on February 7 under the accusation of committing “disorders in penitentiary establishments or re-education centers”, a crime established in article 165.1 of the Penal Code, for allegedly leading a revolt that took place on February 9. March 2020 at the Western Women’s Penitentiary Center known as El Guatao, where she was being held at that time.
According to the prosecutor’s document, Nieto Muñoz, 43, incited “her groupmates not to remain calm” before the measure of the prison management to keep the cubicles closed that day. To do this, allegedly, “provided” one of the defendants “a matchbox to light a candle to the mattresses.”
Shortly after the riot, Nieto Muñoz was transferred more than 600 kilometers from her family, to the Manatí women’s prison, in the province of Las Tunas, where she remained for around six months in isolation cells. Her two underage daughters have not been able to see her in almost two years.
This would be the fourth politically motivated conviction of the lady in white, imprisoned since 2018 and whose sentence was due to end next May.
The situation of Aymara Nieto Muñoz has been denounced by the United Nations Working Group for Arbitrary Detention, which ruled that her arrest and deprivation of liberty are categorically arbitrary and asked the Cuban regime for her immediate release.
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