The young man refused to read a text in the political act to celebrate the anniversary of the assault of the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks.
Havana, Cuba. – An official of the Penitentiary System of Villa Clara threatened to apply a “arbitrary” disciplinary measure to the political prisoner Marcos de la Luz Caballero Granados, according to him he denounced via telephone on July 29 from the Los Caneyes forced labor camp, where he is being held.
Caballero Granados said that on July 25, the criminal reeducator of the Penitentiary Establishment of open regime located in the city of Santa Clara, Captain Daylin Valiente Cruz, handed him a role with a text that he had to read in the morning, a political act that would take place in the prison in commemoration of July 26 (anniversary of the assault on the Moncada barracks and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes).
As the political prisoner also indicated, he refused to access the military’s demand claiming that they were not “negotiable.”
After concluding the morning, he continued to recourse Caballero Granados, the officer let him know that for having refused to participate he would be admonished with a disciplinary measure in his file.
According to the political prisoner, the official did not specify what that measure would be. However, in any case it would have undesirable consequences for him, such as losing the right to the time of reduction of sanction granted by law.
Caballero Granados also stressed that in the penitentiary center there are another 200 prisoners in addition to him, to any of whom the official could have entrusted the reading. His goal by taking care of him, he said, would have been to create a situation to once again discredit political prisoners, and him in particular.
Marcos de la Luz Caballero Granados, 24 years old, has been imprisoned since February 11, 2020 (before arriving at the age of majority) for allegedly writing posters against the Cuban regime.
The trial against him was held in the Municipal Popular Court of Oct October, in Havana. He was sentenced to 10 years of deprivation of liberty for the alleged crimes of “other acts against state security”, “enemy propaganda with a continuous character” and “contempt with a continuous character.”
Despite being a resident of the Havana Vieja municipality, he was transferred from the Maximum Severity prison East Combined Towards the Los Caneyes forced labor camp, in the central region of the country.
