Regime prepares trial against Caimanera protesters next week

BrothersRodiandDaniel Alvarez Gonzalez, along with the brothersLuis Miguel Alarcón Martínez andFelipe Correa Martínez, andYandris Pelier Matos They could appear before the judge in the next week for their participation inthe protests unleashed on May 6 in Caimanera.

It is about thefive protesters who were arrested after the explosion that occurred last Saturday afternoon in that Guantanamo municipality. According to a report fromCubaNet, young people are accused ofalleged crime of “public disorder”, with Preparatory Phase File number 227-23.

Violently detained by uniformed officersMinisterio del Interior cubano (MININT), the five Caiman residents are being investigated by State Security for their participation in a protest in which hundreds of residents took to the streets to demand “freedom” and attention from the authorities to the food shortage and the food crisis. public health services.

“Coralia, the mother of Yandris Pelier Matos, told me that her son had a wound on his forehead with stitches as a result of the beating that the black berets gave him.Victoria Martinez, mother of Felipe and Luis Miguel, told me that her children had no visible bruises even though the beating they gave them was equally brutal," the Palenque Visión reporter and resident of that town told the aforementioned media.Yeris Curbelo Aguilera.

The activist and independent journalist,cited by State Security for an "interview" for having interviewed the relatives of the detained protesters, he indicated that in addition to the alleged "public disorders", the young people could be included in "some other crime" for the hearing, set for next Tuesday.

The five young people are under arrest in the Department of Crimes against Security of the State of Caimanera, a detention center known as “Operations”. According to Curbelo Aguilera, their relatives went there this Thursday, who were able to see them physically ina visit that lasted less than 10 minutes in each case.

The officers investigating the accusation against some young people who demonstrated peacefully, as could be seen in the videos of the protests, told the relatives that they should look for a defense lawyer.

"He is an instructor,Dailovi Torres Guilarte, also told them that it was likely that the sanction for Felipe Correa Martínez and Yandris Pelier Matos would be domiciliary; The rest of the detainees will be sent to jail,” said the Palenque Visión reporter.

It is striking that Torres Guilarte most certainly issues an opinion that, in principle, should be determined by the judge in the form of a sentence after a fair and transparent trial. However, these conditions are conspicuous by their absence in the courts where the regime seekspunish in an exemplary way those Cubans who dare to protest publicly.

Likewise, the instructor informed the family members that “what affects and aggravates the situation of the protesters is not so much the protest as the place where they held the protest.” As Curbelo Aguilera explained, “Caimanera borders the United States Military Base and State Security fears that a protest of this type will provoke military intervention.”

“Hence the seriousness that the Instructor exposed to the families,” said the activist, explaining that, due to its geographical location, Caimanera has the status of “special municipality,” and is subject to strict control by the MININT, reaching even requiring a special permit to enter the town.

Last Saturday, a massive protest took place in Caimanera when dozens of people took to the streets with shouts of “Freedom”, walking through the streets of the town in protest against the shortages and blackouts.

Less than 24 hours after the outbreak, independent media and Cuban civil society organizations denounced the forced disappearance of five of the protesters and thedigital blackout that left the entire country without Internet for more than an hour.

For its part,The Cuban regime announced that it would bring to trial to the detained protesters. In a statement, the president of the Popular Power Assembly in Caimanera,Saimara I will call Galano, stated that "acts of this nature that threaten social peace will not go unpunished and the offenders will be brought before the judicial bodies with all the constitutional guarantees and respect for their rights."

With the same speed, Cuban artists and activists took to social networks to initially show their solidarity with the people of Caimanera and tothen demand the release of those detained and the cessation of repression.

While the Cuban regime blamed three alleged drunks for the massive protest, theCuban civil society It mobilized around the claims expressed by the population of Caimanera and denounced the repression and arbitrary detention of the protesters. Amnesty International, for its part,He demanded the release of the five young people on his social networks.