“The prosecutor was very insistent that they were sanctioned very hard, but the lawyers did their job very well,” said the wife of one of those prosecuted for ‘Cubanet’.
Havana, Cuba. – The trial against Cuban political prisoners José Antonio Pompa López, Lázaro Mendoza García and Daniel Alfaro Frías was held on Tuesday at the Popular Municipal Court of Guanajay, in the province of Artemis. The process was concluded for sentence.
“The prosecutor was very insistent that they were sanctioned very hard, but the lawyers did their job very well: they defended them very well to all three and made clear the court that the three activists had to be released immediately because they had not committed any crime,” he told Cubanet Suarmi Hernández Vilar, wife of Poma López.
According to his testimony, the trial was scheduled to be held at 9:00 in the morning; However, it began at 12:00 noon because the transport that moved prisoners from prison East Combined It did not arrive at the scheduled time.
“It started at 12:00 of the day and ended almost at 3:00 in the afternoon; now you have to wait for the sentence to issue. There is hope because the judge himself told the secretary, in everyone’s presence, that the crime of ‘propaganda against the constitutional order’ did not proceed,” said the woman.
The three activists, who carry prisoners just over a year, were accused of the crimes of “propaganda against constitutional order” and “associations, meetings and illicit manifestations.” For both criminal figures, the Provincial Prosecutor of Artemisa had requested a joint sanction of 10 years in jail for Daniel Alfaro Frías, eight for José Antonio Pompa and six years for Lázaro Mendoza García.
According to the tax request, to which he had access Cubanetthe three opponents would be linked to the Cuba organization first, recently included by the Ministry of Interior (Minint) in their “National List of people and entities sought by links with terrorism”, even without presenting evidence.
