“The Attorney General’s Office continues to inform the people about the legal response to the events of July 11, 2021, which attacked the constitutional order and the stability of our socialist state,” the text states.
Anti-government protesters have been condemned by the crimes of sedition, sabotage, robbery with force, violence, attack, contempt and public disorder. The country’s courts have issued 76 sentences that “have become firm.”
The Cuban regime has previously accused the United States of financing and fomenting the demonstrations that took place in Cuba.
In the widespread protests on July 11 and 12, 2021, thousands of people took to the streets in towns and cities across the country. Many Cubans shouted “freedom” as they marched irritated by shortages of food, medicine and power outages amid a spike in coronavirus cases on the island.
Cuba had reported in March that in Havana alone more than 100 protesters were sentenced to between 4 and 30 years in prison.
The Prosecutor’s Office added that 36 protesters were convicted of sedition and sentenced to between 5 and 25 years in prison. Another 84 Cubans – he added – received reductions in their initial sentences, including 15 young people between 16 and 18 years of age after the time for appealing their sentences had elapsed. The criminal age in Cuba is 16 years.
And he pointed out that the violation of the sanctions imposed by the Court in its sentences or the commission of a new criminal act, could lead to the revocation of the subsidiary sanction and the fulfillment of the rest of the sentence originally set, in deprivation of liberty.
The Cuban government had said in January this year that 790 people, including 55 under 18 years of age, had been charged for their participation in the protests.
Human rights groups, the US government and the European Union say the trials have lacked transparency and have repeatedly called for the release of those sentenced.
Source: Ambito
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