Madrid/Several civil organizations denounced this Tuesday that since yesterday afternoon, the day the new president of the United States, Donald Trump, took office, revoking his predecessor’s order and once again including Cuba on the list of sponsors of terrorism, the The regime has not released any prisoners again. Until this Monday, 170 people convicted for political reasons had been released from prison, according to the number confirmed by the platform #Everyonecreated jointly by several independent mediaamong them 14ymedio.
The Government announced the release of 553 prisoners last tuesday nightafter US President Joe Biden, six days after leaving office, will remove the Island from the blacklist. Although the link seemed obvious, Havana authorities insisted that it was a agreement with the Vatican on the occasion of the Jubilee declared for this year by Pope Francis, and they clarified that they did not grant an amnesty or a pardon, but rather “early release benefits” that include “obligations”, under penalty of returning to prison.
“In the days that this process has been going on, we have denounced the lack of transparency and the need for all prisoners to be released immediately”
The Human Rights Observatory (OCDH) refers to this in a text published this Tuesday. “In its statement about the beginning of the releases, the Cuban regime made reference to the spirit of the Jubilee Year of the Catholic Church. In the days that this process has been going on, we have denounced the lack of transparency and the need for all prisoners to be released immediately,” he recalled. And he warned that “no policy adopted by the United States or other countries should be a cause for the delay or cancellation of the release process.”
The Madrid-based organization, which as of 1 pm on Monday had registered 166 prisoners released from prison, expresses in its text the “maximum concern about possible cancellation, pause or slowdown in releases.” The Cuban regime, denounces the OCDH, “continues to cling to the old scheme of using prisoners as currency, of wanting to pretend that it does not accept accusations and to control all times, but these pretensions, in addition to being contrary to the jubilee spirit, do not “They correspond to the new times of international relations.”
Along the same lines, Justicia 11J, another of the organizations that keeps a record of political prisoners on the Island, made its complaint, in its case since the mass demonstrations of July 11, 2021. In a message on its social networks, they warned of not having received information from any released prisoner on Monday.
The Cuban regime “continues to cling to the old scheme of using prisoners as bargaining chips, of wanting to pretend that it does not accept accusations and to control all times”
“At this time, during the past few days, this organization had already received and verified information on at least twenty cases of release, so the absence of reports from the Island alarms us, in light of the revocation of the measure. of Biden that removed Cuba from the list of State sponsors of terrorism, on the first day of the mandate of the president of the United States, Donald Trump,” says Justicia 11J without hesitation.
In your Web pagethe NGO, which has counted 152 beneficiaries since January 15, denounces that “the Cuban justice authorities are not granting immediate and unconditional freedom to prisoners, but rather extra-penal licenses and conditional releases delivered gradually.” In some cases, such as 8 registered convicts, “they were already in their homes on extra-penal license,” even.
Furthermore, they claim to have known “that prison benefits are being offered to inmates imprisoned for common crimes.”
“The lack of transparency about the people who will benefit as part of the process has caused destabilization in civil society and in the people deprived of their liberty and their families and friends,” protests Justicia 11J, which thanks all the sources that are available to them. allowing you to carry out your registration.
