Havana/The Provincial Court of Havana has condemned opponents Daniel Alfaro Frías, José Antonio Pompa López and Lázaro Mendoza García, nine, eight and five years in prison, respectively. This Monday gives an American Cuban Foundation that includes the complaint of relatives that the trial was “manipulated.”
The prosecutor, Niurka Margarita Tabares Valdés, had requested for them up to 10 years in jail for “propaganda against the constitutional order”, “association”, “meeting” and “illicit manifestations”. Therefore, the official was included on August 12 in the repressor list Cubans elaborating the Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba.
The evidence presented at the trial consisted of 95 stickers with the logo “Against Violence, acts”, “Nine Carnes of the opposition movement for a new Republic”, in addition to seven thumbs, two of them black and five whites, with the logo of the organization Cuba first, with the phrase violence and an X on top. abroad”.
The evidence presented at the trial consisted of 95 stickers with the logo “against violence, acts”
Relatives of the three convicted declared Martí News They will try to exhaust until the last resort for their defense. To present the appeal, they have a period of five days from the day following the notification of the resolution.
“They are three peaceful men who have fought for more than 15 years against this regime, demanding the freedom of our people, demanding that human rights are not violated. Everything is because they are in the Cuba movement first, but they have always demonstrated, and we have always shown that our struggle is peaceful,” said Suarmi Hernández, wife of Pompa López.
The three convicted were in pretrial detention without trial more than a year and a half in the Guanajay and Combined Eastern prisons, where they entered early 2024.
“His crime is to have distributed antigubernational octavillas, be financed and directed from abroad, because it cannot be publicly admitted that the Cubans of the island rebel against a regime that keeps them plunged into the worst crisis in the history of Cuba, suffering by hunger, blackouts, lack of water, medications, homes, in the middle of a ramp He pointed out the Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba during the inclusion of the prosecutor in his list of repressors.
“It cannot be publicly admitted that Cubans of the island rebel against a regime that keeps them mired.”
Dozens of Cubans have been sanctioned so far for inciting against the constitutional order since the new Criminal Code was approved in 2022, said the Foundation, who questioned someone accused of this type of crimes “simply by the fact of recording their political opinion in writing in social networks.”
The organization has been elaborating this list in which, among many others, prison officials who have made decisions that harmed or damaged the physical and moral integrity of political prisoners, judges and prosecutors – very based on USA– who have poured unfounded accusations or, simply, unfair against opponents; Doctors who opposed to give options for treatments abroad and, of course, military and party members and the government who are part of the regime’s dome.
