The Cuban government ratifies the sentence of one year of deprivation of liberty to journalist Roberto Quiñones

The middle CubaNet reported today that the Cuban government had ratified sentence of one year of deprivation of liberty in the form of correctional work with internment of its journalist Roberto de Jesús Quiñones Haces.

“I arrived at the Court headquarters at 10 in the morning. It strikes me that it seems like they were waiting for me to arrive from Cienfuegos, because at 9:35 p.m. they summoned me,” he told CubaNet by telephone.

According to the lawyer and independent journalist, "the narrative of events has been reinforced to draw attention to my alleged resistance or disobedience."

“The next step, according to the law, would be that the Municipal Court must summon me to appear at the camp, which, as I have said before, I am not going to do. So they will have to look for me in a patrol car at the house and take me to prison because I am not going to work for them in any camp,” said Quiñones.

Last April, the journalist was arrested and beaten by political police agents when he was preparing to cover the trial against the couple of Rigal-Expósito pastors, who were tried for trying to educate their children at home.

Then Quiñones He was tried by the Guantánamo Municipal Court for the crime of Resistance and Disobedience.

“The only thing I have left is dignity, and I am going to defend that dignity at whatever cost is necessary, even at the cost that I am already suffering from the opposition of my own family,” Quiñones said then.

The international community has spoken out about the journalist's case, which is further evidence of the harassment of these professionals on the Island. Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State of the United States and Kimberly Breier, Undersecretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, spoke on the subject.