The independent feminist platform Yo Sí Te Creo in Cuba (YSTCC) document This Wednesday a new sexist murder occurred in the town of Chambas, in the province of Ciego de Ávila. With the death of Saray Moya Moreno, this Monday, at the hands of her partner, the number of femicides registered on the Island so far this year rises to 48.
The activists sent their condolences “to the affected families and especially to the sons and daughters” of the murdered woman. “Given the delinquency and impunity, we urge family members and children of legal age to pressure and demand justice from the corresponding institutions,” they stressed, in a message posted on social networks.
In addition, they ask for “citizen collaboration” to verify two other alleged femicides that occurred in the province of Santiago de Cuba. This group points out that since 2019, when it began to count sexist crimes on the Island, there have been 166 that have been verified.
YSTCC and the Alas Tensas Gender Observatory (Ogat) also confirmed this Wednesday another sexist crime, the twelfth registered last June, the month with the most deaths of women at the hands of their partners or ex-partners so far this year.
“In the face of delinquency and impunity, we urge family members and children of legal age to pressure and demand justice from the corresponding institutions”
According to the statements that his relatives offered to CubaNetOn June 19, the young Yunisleve Fernández denounced at the Torrientes Police station, in the Jagüey Grande municipality of Matanzas, that her attacker had brutally beaten her. Upon learning that Fernández had gone to the authorities, her ex-partner, whose name the media does not mention but suggests that she lived under the same roof as the victim, threatened to kill her. Four days later, on June 23, Fernández was stabbed to death in front of her four-year-old son and her mother.
The Island exceeds, in just six months, the total number of femicides verified in all of 2022 (36), according to the records of the activists and collated by 14ymedioin the absence of public official statistics.
These groups insist on their calls to the island’s authorities to declare a “state of emergency due to gender violence,” and regret that the Cuban government has not taken action in this regard.
The work of independent feminists and their dissemination in the unofficial media has helped to focus on cases of sexist murders and disappearances of Cuban women in recent years.
The work of independent feminists and their dissemination in the unofficial media has helped to focus on cases of sexist murders
YSTCC has highlighted that “nothing would have been possible without all those people who share content, verify data and are support networks for survivors.”
These groups, which have social networks and telephone numbers for victims, advocate for a comprehensive law against gender violence and the implementation of protocols to prevent these acts, as well as for the creation of shelters and rescue systems for women and their children in danger
Last April, President Miguel Díaz-Canel assured that there would be “zero tolerance” for this type of violence. The official Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) presented in June the Cuban Observatory on Gender Equality, which includes statistics on “women who have been victims of intentional homicide as a consequence of gender violence in the last 12 months.”
The Island’s Supreme People’s Court reported in mid-May that in 2022 there were 18 convictions for sexist murders, all with penalties of more than 25 years in prison. He did not give further details, and it is still not known to which cases those sentences correspond.
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