MIAMI, United States. – The feminist platform Yo SíTeCreo in Cuba lamented this week the selectivity of the release of minors and young people convicted for their participation in the demonstrations of July 11, 2021 (11J).
“It fills us with joy to see the photos of the people detained for the social outbreak of 11J, who have been able to meet this week with their loved ones. Those family photos should never have been broken! your post feminist activist group.
“But the happiness of those mothers, sisters and wives who have not stopped fighting should not be temporary. We see with concern that, if the convictions of the 11J protesters were unfair, the changes in measures made by the authorities since the months after the events have also been very unfair”, they lamented.
For the group, “the authorities have been selective about who to release and when, which has a very negative effect on an event that was massive and should, therefore, have a massive solution. The changes in measure keep people deprived of their liberty, whether with correctional work, a home-to-work regimen, or a reduction in years in prison.”
This Friday, the cuban regime released four minors convicted of the alleged crime of sedition given their participation in the popular demonstrations of 11J.
Two days earlier, the Cuban regime had released the minor on bail. Jonathan Torres-Farrat (Havana) and had sent home, temporarily, the young Andy García Lorenzo (Santa Clara).
The same day were also released José Miguel Gómez Mondeja, Jorge Gabriel Arruebarruena León, Lázaro Alejandro Rodríguez Ruíz and Ariel Núñez Martínez. All had been sentenced to four years in prison in April this year.
According to preliminary analyzes by the Justice 11J group, cited by Yo SíTeCreo in Cuba, the group that has had the most releases seems to be that of people under 21 years of age. However, very few women have had their measurements changed.
“Projects and organizations, such as Cubalex and Justicia 11J, calculate that there are almost 1,000 political prisoners in Cuba, although there should be more given the lack of transparency and the non-recognition of that category by the official party,” laments the feminist platform. .
“This places us once again in front of the legal and citizen debate of whether or not to think of amnesty as the solution for this type of conflict. The amnesty, which had to be fought for by the citizens like everything else in a totalitarian system, would have brought an equal solution for all the people affected.”
“As a society and activism, what has happened to date with the political prisoners for 11J leaves us with the great lesson of how much we must learn to listen to each other and grow in the legal culture for democracy.”
Finally, the group reaffirmed its “commitment to the families and people detained until they achieve definitive freedom and justice, which will only come with reparations,” he said.
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