The teenagerMarco Antonio Pintueles Marrero, political prisoner of11J recently released from prison, denounced the sentence imposed by the Holguín courts of five years of work with confinement for his participation inthe historic protests.
Pintueles Marrero, sentenced in February to seven years in prison for having demonstrated peacefully on July 11 in that city, received a communication on June 2, in which the judicial authorities informed him that he had to complete 5 years of correctional work. with internment.
In a video sent to this newsroom, the young man - who spent nine months in prison being the only minor imprisoned in Holguín - denounced what he considered an injustice, since he was never notified that there would be such a change in measures after his release.
Released at the end of April, the teenager and his relatives considered that the authorities granted him freedom after spending nine months in prison and after having expressed their dissatisfaction with his prison situation during the oral hearing of the appeal before the judges of the Popular Provincial Court.
Pintueles said he did not understand why all the young people aged 18 and under had been given the opportunity to continue their studies and reintegrate into society and he had not, said relatives of the accused present in the room.
After his release, the young man's relatives acknowledged that they did not know under what conditions. “I can't believe it, first they said it was a pass, then they informed us that they had released him,” a relative told CiberCuba.
Now, once he received the notification about the work sentence with confinement in a correctional facility, the young man assures that it will be like continuing in prison. “I am going to remain imprisoned, in different conditions, but imprisoned,” he said in the video sent this Tuesday to this editorial office.
“Of the seven who were prosecuted for the cause of 11J, I will be the only minor who will go to prison in Holguín,” said Pintueles Marrero, denouncing that the other young people who were prosecuted for demonstrating have family linked to the regime, “parents of the MININT.” or influences; and that “that is why they are free, thank God.”
One of those young people, Yoel Ricardo Sánchez Borjas, of the same age and sentenced for the same number of years as Pintueles Marrero, has been on bail from the first moment and has not had to go through the rigors of prison like his peer, according to Several sources confirmed to this editorial team in April.
As a result of the situation of his son, Dairy Marrero, reported that the student had been violently detained on July 11 and that he was in a delicate state of health in prison. They had caused the teenager “a very large bruise on his back.”
“They took photos of that in Criminal Investigation,” where he was held incommunicado for 46 days and was infected with COVID-19, he stated then. In statements to Radio Martí,The mother reported that her son had been forced to confess having committed vandalism against a poster of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) in Holguín
“My son is a very manageable 18-year-old teenager and the instructor told him 'look, your mother is out there, she is suffering, cooperate with the process'... and he admitted, under that duress, having thrown stones at a Party poster.” , denounced Marrero.
Pintueles Marrero, who was studying high school technical studies at the Holguín School of Economics and had no criminal record at the time of his arrest, now denounces the injustice that is being committed again in his case, with the new work measure with confinement in a correctional facility.
"With what they are doing, they are not recovering young people, they are destroying families, mothers... They excited me, who started my career a few days ago... they are playing with the feelings of my family and mine," said the young man in his recording.
Initially accused of the alleged crime of “sedition”, the prosecution initially requested 18 years in prison, the same number of years of life as the young man.
In addition, he requested that he pay fees exceeding 23,500 pesos for alleged material damage to the Party, the neighboring Plaza de la Revolución Monumentary Complex and a vehicle of the Special Brigade of the Ministry of the Interior (MININT), according to the collective file in the preparatory phase. consulted by CiberCuba.
“From now on, what happens to me inside will be the fault and responsibility of Major Sergio of Holguín State Security and Lieutenant Colonel Camejo. The two of them are the ones in charge of the political prisoners of July 11,” the young man warned in his recording.
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