The activist and opponent Carlos Ernesto Díaz González, known as Ktivo Dissidente, has obtained parole and has been at home since Wednesday, according to the activist Ismary Bacallao, who published several images from Cienfuegos.
“Tremendous good news. Today is one of the happiest days in a long time. My brother, although not by blood, Carlos Ernesto Díaz González, Ktivo Dissident, on his way home. They gave him probation,” Bacallao wrote. His message was later broadcast by Cubalex.
Added to her joy was that of Luis Rodríguez Pérez, husband of the political prisoner Angélica Garrido. “The news of the freedom of Ktivo Dissidente reaches me and I realize that everything, be it laughter, be it tears, be it hope, everything is submerged in this fight for freedom,” he said in a message of thanks to the lawyer Ana Belén Cordero, a former Ecuadorian congresswoman from Guillermo Lasso’s party who sponsors his wife.
“The news of the freedom of Ktivo Dissidente reaches me and I realize that everything, be it laughter, be it tears, be it hope, everything is submerged in this fight for freedom”
After Ktivo’s release, no message from the activist, who did not have a mobile phone at the time, has come to light.
The opponent was sentenced at the end of November 2022 to two years and six months in prison for the crimes of disobedience and contempt. Díaz González was confined in the Ariza prison, in Cienfuegos, for having requested the release of political prisoners climbed on the wall of a playground, in the habanero boulevard of San Rafael in the month of April.
During that action, Ktivo launched a harangue in which he also claimed the right to respect other people’s ideas. “There doesn’t have to be violence, there doesn’t have to be bloodshed, but they have to let us participate in the political life of the country. Whoever is a communist should be, but whoever doesn’t have to be respected,” shout during his protest, which lasted a few minutes until he decided to go down and the officers who were watching from below handcuffed and detained him.
Previously, he also had problems for demonstrating in December 2020 to demand the freedom of Luis Robles, known as “the young man with the banner.” He later joined the Archipelago platform and was arrested in November 2021, the eve of the Civic March for Change, for posting protest posters in Cienfuegos.
“Look, I give you permission to order my execution, I think I deserve it if you judge according to my wishes to put an end to so much barbarism and restore full freedom, democracy and happiness to my country”
In one of the last messages that the activist released from prison, last December, the activist told Miguel Díaz-Canel: “Look, I give you permission to order my execution, I think I deserve it if you judge according to my wishes to end to such barbarism and restore full freedom, democracy and happiness to my country”.
The opponent recounted the mistreatment he suffered in prison, denounced the situation of other prisoners of conscience and reminded the authorities that he is not alone. “You should also know that I know that there is still a lot of courage in Cuba, willing like me, not to keep silent under the latent threat of making us apostatize,” he said.
In February 2023, Ktivo Dissidente was transferred to the Baldosa prison, in Cienfuegos, where he was given a less severe regime. There he was promised to have the first pass from him in ten days, but it was not until April that he got it for the first time. “It looks like they were waiting for me to get a little fatter,” he said.
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