Wife of political prisoner Yasmany González protests with her son in Havana

“My husband is unjustly imprisoned and I will not get tired of saying it,” she said.Ilsa Ramos, wife of political prisonerYasmany González Valdés during adirect of social networks in which she denounced the strategies of the repressive bodies of the State to silence her.

Using a friend's networks, González's wife sent her message of protest while walking along the Malecón in Havana with her son, who suffers from autism. Ramos took the opportunity to show the place where her husband wrote a posteropposing the call for elections by the Cuban regime.

Artist and activist for Human Rights in Cuba,González Valdés was arrested in April of last year after a violent search of his home by State Security agents.

Accused of the crime of “enemy propaganda” (punished with imprisonment of 4 to 10 years), the young 32-year-old Cuban artist painted a protest poster on the facade of a building located in the small square on Campanario Street. and Malecón, on a site where a building was formerly erected that collapsed, like many others in the Centro Habana municipality.

“I do not vote in Dictatorship. The 75 live”, wrote González Valdés on a wall that Ramos showed in his live performance,advocating abstention in elections who confirmed in officeMiguel Diaz-Canel on April 19, 2023. In addition, his message vindicated the protest carried out by Cuban activists known asGroup of 75, who were sentenced to severe sentences after a repressive wave in March 2003, known as the Black Spring.

The trial against the Cuban rapper was concluded in recent days in the Municipal Court of Diez de Octubre. González Valdés could be sentenced to six years in prison, according to the request of the Prosecutor's Office. In statements toCuban DiaryRamos described the trial as a circus.

"My husband painted three posters and that was proven with the handwriting test. And that's why they want to put him in prison for six years. The sanctioning framework for that crime is three to eight years in prison," she added to the aforementioned media.

One day after his ratification as ruler (April 20, 2023),Díaz-Canel celebrated his 63rd birthday. The next day, State Security arrested González Valdés and transferred him to Villa Marista, where he was held for a month to later be transferred to the Combinado del Este prison.

The action of González Valdés was registered in the context of similar acts carried out on the same datesby the movement "The New Directory" (END), who claimed responsibility for several anti-government graffiti that appeared in the Cuban capital.

"About 20 State Security officers, a doctor, two snitches from the block just came with a search warrant. They disturbed my baby who suffers from autism, tremendous equipment. They took his cell phone and took it to Villa Marista, they say it is under investigation," Ramos explained after his partner's arrest.

The Cultural Rights Observatory (ODC) also denounced the arrest and noted that the young activist had previously been summoned by State Security agents who “tried to accuse him and link him to the group El Nuevo Directorio, for which they performed handwriting tests. ”.

González Valdés had been summoned, detained, fined and threatened on several occasions for his publications on social networks.State Security harassed and repressed him due to his critical stance against the regime..

During one of the last conjugal visits, last August,Ramos denounced the abandonment her husband suffered in prison, who did not receive medical attention despite having a lot of cough, fever and diarrhea.

“You have always shown reality raw and as it is, and your photos express themselves. Your complaints are the voice of thousands of Cubans who for different reasons do not dare to expose. I don't think you'll stop, my Don Quixote fighting alone against giant windmills, and who many believe crazy. I believe in you. “Strength, Homeland and Life!” his wife told Yasmany in November 2022, after one of the multiple arrests suffered by the activist.

González Valdés worked self-employed as a bricklayer, and was always active in criticizing the Cuban regime on social networks. For this reason, he was fined in April 2022 as contemplated in Decree Law 370.

In January 2022, he was arrested by the police whenHe intended to demonstrate peacefully in front of the Supreme Court of Havana to demand the freedom of political prisoners - including the peaceful protesters ofthe historic 11J protests in Cuba-, coinciding with the anniversary of José Martí's birth.