Havana/The Popular Provincial Court of Villa Clara has ratified the sentence of seven years in prison against Alexander Mario Fábregas Milanés –Which has already served the 11J – for uploading to social networks videos in which, according to the initial ruling, “questioned the system of the Cuban State and attacked the president” of the country.
“I found out in a conversation we had on Monday, when my son called me from the maximum security prison the pre of Santa Clara,” he explains to 14ymedio The mother of the 35 -year -old activist, Luisa María Milanés. The crime for which Fábregas was convicted is that of propaganda against the constitutional orderRemember the woman.
“He has been imprisoned since July 27, 2024, at eight months of being in prison, the tax request of seven years of deprivation of liberty arrived and on January 28 of this year he was held the trial, which was concluded for sentence,” Milanés details. “As the sentence arrived at two months and we appealed, but they have maintained the conviction, they have not reduced anything.”
The woman tells that her son “is sometimes depressed, but always makes it clear that he will not abandon the fight and that he will not claudicate”
The woman tells that her son “is sometimes depressed, but always makes it clear that he will not abandon the fight and that he will not give up.” Fábregas is not retracting from having made several live broadcasts through Facebook in which he advocated to go to the streets to protest. In those videos he insisted that civil disobedience was “a right, not a crime” and asked to support “political prisoners.”
According to the court ruling, to which this newspaper had access, the publications of Fábregas, then resident in the city of Sancti Spíritus, had between 30 and 22 reactions, between 50 and 383 comments and that were shared between 19 and 167 times, in addition to being amplified by three YouTube channels.
Despite the limited dissemination of his call, the Court considered proven that the convicted person made these publications “with the intention of stimulating people to attempt against social stability and the socialist state proclaimed by the Constitution of the Republic.”
Fábregas was arrested in December 2020 for three days – maximum platform without trial – for publishing a photograph on social networks where he appeared with a poster that said: “No more misery.” Months later he was arrested on July 11, 2021 at his home, for transmitting his call to go out to the streets of Sancti Spíritus on his social networks to accompany the anti -government protests that during that day shook the island.
The young man was sentenced to nine months for the crime of incite
Nine days after his arrest, and in one of the many summary judgments that were made against the 11J protesters, the young man was sentenced to nine months for the crime of incitement to commit crimes, although he did not even come to go out on the street on that day of popular demonstrations.
After leaving prison, he continued to transmissions on Facebook in which he denounced the deep crisis situation suffered by Cubans, criticized the management of the leaders of the Communist Party and appealed to the right to the peaceful protest as a path for the change in the island.
Fábregas belonged to the United Anti -Total Forum (Fantu), but at that time he defined “Opposition on your own”according to his mother. The Cuban Observatory of Human Rights (OCDH) has described the sentence against the “unfair” activist and “product of a clear violation of human rights”, the result of “a court lacking independence”.
Last May, Fábregas He received the prize “Graciela Fernández Meijide to the Defense of Human Rights” corresponding to 2025. The award, an initiative of the Center for the Opening and Development of Latin America (Cadal), also recognized the political prey of the 11J, Lizandra Góngora.
