The government prohibits young man who served sentence for July 11th from leaving Cuba.

State Security prevented 23-year-old Armando Sardiñas, who served a 10-month sentence for the protests on July 11, 2021, from leaving the country.

Sardiñas and his sister reported on social media that upon arriving at the Immigration counter, where authorities check travelers' documentation, the two state security agents in charge of harassing the young man approached him, tore up his plane ticket, and informed him that he was "barred" from traveling.

"You see, we do what we want," they said to him after informing him of this decision.

Two individuals, the same ones who have been stalking him lately, showed up at the Immigration offices of the José Martí International Airport. I imagine them with their tongues out, like hounds chasing after their prey that eludes them, to continue the harassment and abuse of power that characterizes the Mafia that is the State Security of Cuba, and prevented my brother from traveling, declaring his trip "disabled", tearing up his ticket, and informing him that "tomorrow they were going to talk to him," said the sister of the protester, Jacqueline Hope.

On his part, Sardiñas recounts that "he lost everything, his family's sacrifice, his dreams turned into a nightmare at that moment when his turn came in immigration to check his flight and enter the waiting room."

This is socialist Cuba, the paradise that many promote, where for collaborating with an independent media outlet you are denied and your rights violated, where they prohibit you from the right to go wherever you want and decide, even just to the corner of your house. I do not lose hope, someday I will be free, I will be able to vent and share all those feelings and anecdotes that I have been experiencing since July 11, 2021," he expressed.

Sardiñas, who is currently a contributor to the independent outlet CubaNet, was sentenced to 10 months of correctional work with internment at the La Lima camp in Guanabacoa (Havana) in October 2021 for his participation in the historic anti-government protests of 11J.

Since then, both he and his family have been the target of harassment by the political police.

On April 14th, he was detained by State Security agents while he was documenting the "Dog Day" March at the Colón Cemetery in Havana.

The regime's enforcers kept him under arrest and incommunicado for seven hours, subjecting him to intense questioning, as revealed by the information published by the aforementioned independent media outlet.