A Cuban court ratified the conviction of sisters Angélica and María Cristina Garrido Rodríguez for their participation in the peaceful protests of 11J, in Quivicán, Mayabeque.
Luis Rodríguez Pérez, Angélica's husband, described inFacebook the trial as a theatrical farce and recounted everything that happened that day, when the sentence was also ratified against a family that did not participate in the protests, but was tried for starting a fight in a city park on the night of the demonstrations. .
"It is likely that they did it together to muddy them with politics, or to give the Garridos a more 'common' criminal connotation," Rodríguez Pérez stressed.
During the hearing of the appeal, the Cuban judge who led the process said that after studying all the cases for a month they had decided to apply two modifications, the first of them for Angélica.
"She is considered guilty, in addition to the charge of attack that was charged against her and for which she is sentenced to three years in prison, of the crime of contempt. But, the sanction would remain the same: 3 years of deprivation of liberty," the witness detailed.
The other "modification" was for one of the women in the family accused of the fight and would be six years of correctional work with confinement.
The accused's lawyer complained to the judge that it was already the sanction that had been imposed on her, to which she, after a brief moment of apparent consternation, said: "Apparently there was a mistake. Well, well - she looked up - it stays So as it is."
The description of the grotesque scene made by Angélica Garrido Rodríguez's partner did not detail the reactions of the lawyers of both political prisoners, but by calling the entire moment theater, they show the family's disagreement with the decisions made.
Angélica's sister must serve a seven-year prison sentence, andBoth learned of the court's decision last March, after a long period of waiting.
The two women, with children and husbands, have reported physical and psychological abuse in prison where they have remained all this time.
“I am innocent, my hand has never been raised against them, nor has my mouth offended them. "They are the ones who should be in my place, they are the ones who proceeded incorrectly and arbitrarily,"Angélica expressed in a letter, to refer to the alleged attacks that he would have committed against police officers.
Angélica and María Cristina Garrido Rodríguez join the unofficial list of 74 Cuban women imprisoned on the island for political reasons.according to Justice record 11J, who from exile has compiled information on those detained during last summer's peaceful demonstrations in Cuba.
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