In the last twelve months, Cuba imprisoned 1,054 “verified political prisoners”, of whom 932 currently remain in prison, denounced this Monday the NGO Prisoners Defenders.
According to the compilation of the organization, based in Madrid, from February 2021 to date, the number of people deprived of liberty has increased by 917, so Prisoners Defenders considers political motivations.
The report notes that 794 prisoners have been prosecuted for the anti-government protests of last July 11, four more than the figure released by the Cuban Attorney General’s Office.
Similarly, the list of the NGO warns that there is a total of 32 minors in prison (due to different facts), where the presence of a 13-year-old boy, three 15-year-olds and nine 16-year-olds stands out.
For this reason, Prisoners Defenders accused Cuba of “shattering” the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which the country has signed and lamented the “absolute silence” in this regard from the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations Organization, Michelle Bachelet.
In addition to the 932 detainees on the list, Prisoners Defenders recognizes “another 11,000 civilians not belonging to opposition organizations, 8,400 of them convicted and 2,538 convicted, with average sentences of 2 years and 10 months in prison, for charges called ‘pre-criminal’ in the Penal Code, that is, without crime”.
The Cuban Attorney General’s Office indicated in a statement dated January 22 that has prosecuted a total of 790 people for relevant facts in relation to the anti-government protests of July 11, of which 55 are between 16 and 17 years old.
Another 27 are under 16 years of age, to whom alternative measures have been applied as they do not reach the minimum criminal age.
The prosecution also assured that it has verified “compliance with the constitutional rights and guarantees of due process” despite the “Manipulations and opinion patterns, which seek to accuse Cuba of human rights violations.”
Prisoners Defender criticized the prosecution’s brief, calling it “political, full of inaccuracies and ambiguous language, in an attempt to try to limit the illimitable.” (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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