The Spanish deputyEdmundo Bal He said this Wednesday on social networks that he will sponsor the Cuban political prisonerLuis Robles Elizástigui, arrested more than a year ago for demonstrating peacefully with a sign in Havana asking for “Freedom.”
“Luis Robles is a democrat whose only crime is opposing the ruthless communist regime of Cuba. I was able to sponsor him and his cause thanks to the Cuban Observatory for Human Rights (OCDH),” Bal announced on Twitter.
“His defense of freedom is also mine and that of all democrats,” he added, accompanying his publication with the hashtag #PatriaYVida.
The day before, the MEPHermann Tertsch announced that he would sponsor the Cuban political prisoner Roberto Pérez Fonseca, 38 years old, arrested for participating in theJuly 11 anti-government protests.
The VOX politician assured that “Roberto Pérez Fonseca and his family will have visibility, support and encouragement so that his unjust captivity is as brief as possible and so that his jailers know that they will have to pay for any abuse towards him.”
“They are warned. They will not have time for impunity like previous criminals,” he warned.
Tertsch announced his intentions after joining the OCDH's “No Cuban political prisoner made invisible” campaign. In a third message via Twitter, he recommended “to all those who want to help alleviate the nightmare of the repression of communist terror in Cuba, in prisons and outside of them, contact info@observacuba.org in this sponsorship action of prisoners and other forms of struggle for the #Cry for Freedom.”
Robles Elizástigui was arrested on December 4, 2020, after asking for freedom and no more repression with a sign on San Rafael Boulevard in Havana. He also demanded the release of the protesting rapperDenis Solis, who was then in prison and, after his release, emigrated to Serbia after months of harassment by the political police.
The trial date against Luis Robles Elizástigui was set for December 16, at 9:00 in the morning. At the beginning of this month,The young man served his 29 years in the Combinado del Este prison, in Havana. . . . He is a computer science and natural graduate from Guantánamo Province.
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