Just 200 political prisoners have been released by the Cuban regime, less than half of the 553 figure announced on January 14 after an agreement with the Vatican and after the administration of Joe Biden eliminated the … Island of the list of sponsoring countries of terrorism.
“Once again, the Cuban regime has played with the perversion he exercised since time immemorial against the families of protesters and human rights defenders,” said Prisoners Defenders (PD) by publishing the “first integral analysis of political prisoners released in Cuba”. The Oenegé cataloged this process as a “fraudulent release.”
According to the report, between January 15 and 20 (just one case was registered on January 30) only 200 out of a total of 1,161 political prisoners were released, and the regime would have completed the remaining ones (up to 553) «with an amount still indeterminate of common criminals who have been released (…) with the same alleged measures ‘grace’ as the political prisoners released in Cuba ».
This process lacked transparency on the part of the authorities, NGOs as PD consulted the results with the families and released political prisoners, which allowed them to sentence that the negotiation of the “liberation of political prisoners” has been “a theatrical farce still more serious than has already been due to the conditions in which the released have left prison, incompatible with any fundamental human right, but also further destroy any type of credibility on the regime even for the most unsuspecting and unaware nature”.
PD refers to the fact that 94% of the 200 prisoners released in Cuba had served more than half of their conviction and would be entitled to the open regime, probation or immediate freedom.
On the other hand, none received unconditional freedom, but will continue to fully comply with their sentences under two types of subsidy: “probation” and “extrapenal license”, so the threat of returning to prison remains and, in addition, they must comply with a Series of requirements such as: Do not move from your city of residence, work in state centers assigned by state security, not express or publish your opinions on social networks or publicly demonstrate critical attitudes with the government, not give statements to the independent press or Foreign, not communicating with human rights organizations, must also appear regularly before the authorities and may be summoned as part of a police monitoring.
For this reason, Javier Larrondo, president of PD, considers that it is “a de facto domiciliary prison regime”, and “the draconian conditions are undoubtedly a mockery of the negotiation process with the Vatican and the Catholic institution itself, and the Volvement of guilt and reparation of which the regime lacks having imprisoned and tortured the more than 1,801 innocent political prisoners of their positions present in their prisons from July 1, 2021 until the end of last December, in just 3 years and six months ».
Larrondo also remembers that about 736 political and conscientious inmates remain behind bars, all under inhuman and degrading conditions, and subject to constant physical and psychological torture.
On the other hand, in addition to the total lack of transparency in the process, the Cuban authorities have not issued any statement in this regard despite the pause in the releases that followed after the inauguration of Donald Trump and that he revoked the exit of Cuba of the list of sponsoring countries of terrorism. Although it transpired that it was a negotiation between Havana and Washington, the first never recognized that it was an exchange, but a promise to the Vatican as part of its “narrow and fluid relations.”
Despair has increased in hundreds of families of political prisoners on the island, who keep the hope of receiving them at home before they extinguish their sanctions, some of them up to 15 years of deprivation of liberty only for demonstrating peacefully.
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