The Cuban Prosecutor’s Office has informed, after months of waiting, of the sentence request that they will make to the court that judges Maykel Castillo Osorbo and Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, ten years for the first and seven for the second.
The information has been released by the bill of the rapper’s Facebook, imprisoned since May 18, and will offer more details about the crimes charged to both, as well as the other three defendants, present on April 4 when Osorbo was arrested.
“For now it is difficult to even think, but we will do all the analysis and the pertinent summons. We will not leave you alone. How miserable that power that stops at nothing! How profoundly miserable the reality of death that they extend to everything they touch !” indicates the note.
“For now it is difficult to even think, but we will do all the analyzes and the pertinent calls. We will not leave them alone”
Both artists share the same file, in which they are accused of aggravated contempt, public disorder and instigation to commit a crime to go out on the streetin front of the headquarters of the San Isidro Movement in Old Havana to sing Homeland and Life among the neighbors, on April 4, 2021. On Alcántara weighs, in addition, the accusation of outrage against the national symbols, open for making the work of art drapeau.
However, neither of them was arrested at the time. Osorbo was arrested the following May 18, and was disappeared until he was sent, on May 31, to the Kilo Cinco y Medio maximum security prison.
Alcántara, for his part, was arrested on July 11, before being able to join the demonstrations that took place that day in dozens of places throughout the island.
Until now, they have remained in preventive detention, and numerous international organizations, such as the Center for the Opening and Development of Latin America, Freedom House, International PEN or Prisoners Defenders, have demanded the immediate release of both artists from the Cuban government.
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