The political prisonerAndy Garcia Lorenzo, 23 years old, one of the participants in the social outbreak of July 11 in Cuba, will be tried along with other citizens on January 10 in the city of Santa Clara, in Villa Clara; reported his sister Roxana García Lorenzo, on her personal Facebook profile.
"On Monday, January 10, my brother will be subjected, along with another group of brave 11J protesters, to the false testimonies of the Prosecutor's Office, whose witnesses are the same police officers who came out to beat them for simply asking for freedom," said the young woman, barely 20 years old, who has become a prominent activist for the release of Cuban political prisoners.
From García Lorenzo, for protesting in his province against the government of Miguel Díaz-Canel, the prosecutor's office asks him for seven years of deprivation of liberty, for the alleged crimes of public disorder, contempt for authority and attack.
"I don't know until now which judge will end up judging him, but whoever it is, we will know and it will be that person who will later bear the blame for every minute of jail time that Andy continues to be subjected to, for signing the sentence that will surely already they have," said Roxana García.
As a result of the repression unleashed by the Cuban regime after July 11, multiple activists and journalists have taken on the task of tracking down the identities of prosecutors and judges involved in the prosecution of Cuban citizens for political reasons. This week the prosecutor was denouncedFernando Valentín Sera Planas, from Holguín, who requests sentences even for minors.
"The trials, of course, will be behind closed doors and together with several other inmates, we all know that they do not want the disasters and antics that occur in these trials to be made public, where the lawyers end up giving their best defense and at the same time ends up being useless," explained Roxana García.
Until now, more than 700 people remain deprived of liberty for reasons associated with the July 11 demonstrations and 14 of them are minors; according to Justice 11J and Cubalex records. The Cuban prosecutor's office has asked them for sentences of up to 30 years in prison.
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