Of these 932, Prisoners Defenders has verified that 794 are prisoners of the unprecedented protests of June 11. Dozens of detainees have been released in recent months, but with fines “exaggerated amounts for Cuba,” he reported.
Of the prisoners derived from the repression of the protests, Prisoners Defenders has indicated that at least 32 are children –28 boys and four girls–. Of 13 years there is one; from 15, three; 16 years old, nine; and 17 years old, twenty-one.
In addition, 50 percent, 16 boys and girls, have been charged with sedition. Prisoners Defenders has denounced that among them there are children with “impairments and mental retardation incompatible with violence and much less with sedition.”
“Cuba is shattering its signature and ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, imprisoning and destroying youth, bringing terror to families throughout the country and wildly causing irreparable pain to all those imprisoned and in their families and close friends,” lamented Prisoners Defenders.
In total, 166 verified political prisoners have been prosecuted on charges of sedition and at least 511 prisoners have already been sentenced. Of them, 194 with sentences of more than ten years, 38 percent.
The organization has recognized, like every month, the other 11,000 young civilians who do not belong to opposition organizations, 8,400 of them convicted and 2,538 convicted, with average sentences of two years and ten months in prison, through “pre-criminal” sentences, that is, In other words, without committing any crime –as the Penal Code verbatim indicates in its article 76.1 for these 11,000–, when contemplating the Penal Code that they would be people likely to commit crimes in the future “because of the behavior that they observe in manifest contradiction with the norms of socialist morality.
Thus, they impose sentences of between one and four years in prison without a crime being investigated or committed, reported Europa Press.
Prisoners Defenders has declared itself “surprised” when reading a statement issued by the Cuban regime, where it indicates fewer cases than those made public by NGOs, a total of 790 people “instructed to charge for acts of vandalism.”
“The Prosecutor’s Office, a legal and technical entity in any democratic country and whose hypothetical good performance is based on precision, has issued a political statement, full of inaccuracies and ambiguous terms, in an attempt to try to limit the illimitable,” has criticized the organization.
“Why does it only give the figures for the events with the “greatest connotation”? Is it a statement from the Prosecutor’s Office or from the (Cuban Communist) Party? What is the “connotation” for the Prosecutor’s Office?” before emphasizing that “they don’t talk about detained and prosecuted minors under 16, and this lack of information, the Prosecutor’s Office itself confirms, is precisely because of its ‘connotation’.
Prisoners Defenders has maintained since the beginning of this ‘razzia’ that more than 5,000 people were arrested and more than 1,500 prosecuted. “In addition to our sources and studies, the data, the facts and the Prosecutor’s Office itself contribute to making this assertion increasingly palpable,” he indicated.
“For now, the regime recognizes that it has prosecuted 115 defendants who ‘are between 16 and 20 years of age,’ and that ’55 are between 16 and 18 years of age,'” he concluded.
Source: Ambito
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