Former Supreme Court prosecutor Yeilis Torres Cruz, released on April 21 after ten months in prison, left Cuba and is in the hands of United States Immigration.
Torres Cruz spent almost a year under investigation for the crime of attack after being attacked by the official announcer Humberto López.
After being released from prison, Yeilis boarded a raft to leave the island and was intercepted by US authorities on the high seas, activist Dairis González Ravelo reported through a Facebook broadcast.
On the ship, González says in her video, “they made a list to deport the 17 people who were going with her to Cuba,” which was sent to Havana. However, the activist continues, “Yeilis was not accepted in Cuba.”
González Revelo also states that the family of the former prosecutor knows that on the ship she “cried out” to be communicated with the Cuban-American congresswoman María Elvira Salazar, and that they do not know where she is in Immigration. “Yeilis Torres was exiled from Cuba, because she left Cuba on an illegal boat, the only way she had to leave Cuba, because she was regulated,” adds the activist.
Torres Cruz, says Gónzález, was accompanied by two opponents who participated in the protests on July 11
Torres Cruz, says Gónzález, was accompanied by two opponents who participated in the July 11 protests, but the activist does not know their identity.
In May of last year, Torres was accused of “attack” and received a precautionary measure of house arrest, after trying to denounce an attack against presenter Humberto López.
In an interview with 14ymedio, she denounced that López hit her and tried to take her mobile phone from her when he was leaving a building in Havana, a scene that was broadcast on his Facebook profile.
“Humbertico, how are you doing? Can you explain to the world why you are here in the house of a dear [amante] Having a wife?” Torres asked López. Then it is seen when the presenter asks the woman to identify herself and she replies that she is an activist for Human Rights. Later, a struggle is seen that is recorded.
At least two days after being charged, Yeilis Torres Cruz, 34, was sent to the detention center at 100 y Aldabó. Later, she was transferred to the Women of the West prison, in El Guatao, in the Havana municipality of La Lisa.
Ten months after remaining imprisoned, without a conviction, the Havana Provincial Prosecutor’s Office determined that it was not necessary to submit her case to the Court
Ten months after remaining imprisoned, without a conviction, the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office of Havana determined that it was not necessary to submit her case to the Court and imposed a fine of 3,000 pesos.
Torres said then that he did not agree with the fine, because he did not commit a crime, but he would pay it because it was worse to be in jail. And although the Prosecutor’s Office specified in a document that Yeilis had assumed “an attitude of repentance”, that she was a mother and pregnant, she said it was a lie and that she was released because of her kidney problems.
This week, the activist Daniela Rojo also made public that she is in a refugee center in Frankfurt, Germany, where she has requested political asylum together with her two children.
The young woman was moderator of the Archipelago platform and architect in Guanabacoa of the initiative for the march called for November 15 throughout Cuba. Although she no longer belongs to the opposition organization, she was one of the members who suffered the most harassment and threats from State Security.
In recent months, one of the strategies used by the regime against activists and opponents has been to force them into exile en masse. This was the case, for example, with the artist Hamlet Lavastida, the poet Katherine Bisquet, the rapper Denis Solís or the playwright Yunior García Aguilera.
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