The Court found Gabriel Peña Oviedo guilty of the murder of Yordan Revé Abrahatic, but the conviction is questioned in slight networks against the severity of the crime.
Madrid, Spain.- The Popular Provincial Court of Havana sentenced Gabriel Peña Oviedo to 25 years of liberty, accused of killing Yordan Revé Abrahatic, a 21-year-old boy, during a family altercation that occurred on September 23 in the Cuban capital.
According to THE OFFICIAL INFORMATIVE NOTE Published by the Court, the trial – Oral and public – was held in the Fourth Criminal Chamber, corresponding to Cause 133 of 2025. The institutional version details that Peña Oviedo, after consuming “a significant amount of alcohol”, attacked “without a word” to the victim with a knife and caused the immediate death in public roads.
The ruling argues that the conviction took into account the seriousness of the fact, the social behavior of the accused, the impact on the community and the pain caused to family members, in addition to underlining that “the fundamental principle of life” was violated.
The Court assured that at all times the guarantees of due process provided for in the Criminal Procedure Law and in the Constitution of the Republic were respected, and said that both the defense and the Prosecutor’s Office may present appeal.
Criticism in social networks
The sentence has raised broad debate on social networks, where many users consider that the penalty is insufficient.
“25 years in prison for removing a life, that laziness of our laws for these cases is what contributes to violence to increase in Cuba,” said Gustavo Lázaro Comet Rueda.
Another user, Elier González Milián, said: “Go shit this system: you kill a person in cold blood and they put 25 years and 10 you are loose. This country is useless.”
For his part, Daniel Arturo Frías Almenares said that “the laws are very lazy, no one has the right to take a life to another being. That one goes imprisoned now, then good behavior and repentant, after a while on the street enjoying the good life, meanwhile the deceased underground and his family suffering eternally”.
“Cuba is no longer sure,” concluded Antonio Pingarrica Villamil.
A context of growing violence
The news is part of a scenario of growing insecurity on the island. Only in the first semester of 2025, the Cuban Citizen Audit Observatory (OCAC) documented 63 homicidesan average of more than ten per month, in addition to 16 feminicides verified by independent observatories.
Between June and September, feminist organizations registered 33 new cases of gender violencewhich doubled the figures of the first quarter of the year. The independent press has also reported murders in several provinces, including that of a police captain in September.
The condemnation of Peña Oviedo, although presented as proof of the “commitment to legality” by the judicial system, reveals the distance between the official discourse and citizen perception, which increasingly questions the effectiveness of Cuban laws against the rebound of violence.
