The MEPHermann Tertsch announced this Tuesday that he sponsors thepolitical prisoner CubanRoberto Perez Fonseca, 38 years old, arrested for participating inthe 11J protests.
“From today I sponsor a prisoner of the communist dictatorship of Cuba. He is Roberto Pérez Fonseca, he is 38 years old and was arrested on July 16 for participating in the 11J Freedom Cry. "He is in Quivicán prison, sentenced in a farce trial to 10 years in prison," he wrote on Twitter to announce who he sponsors, after joining the campaign.“No Cuban political prisoner made invisible”, from the Cuban Observatory of Human Rights (OCDH).
In a second tweet, 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 have no time for impunity like previous criminals.”
Likewise, in a third message 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 action to sponsor the prisoners and other forms of struggle for#ClamordeLibertad”.
The European parliamentarian was one of the first to join the campaign that the OCDH recently launched to denounce and seek solidarity with the cases of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in Cuba before and after 11J.
The members of theEuropean Parliament Leopoldo López Gil, Gabriel Mato Adrover, Dita Charanzová and Soraya Rodríguez Ramos.
This campaign was also supported in Spain by the deputies of the Popular Party (PP) in the Assembly of the Community of Madrid, Javier Fernández Lasquetty, Almudena Negro, Janette Novo Castillo and Alfonso Serrano, spokesperson for the group in the regional assembly, in addition to Rocío Monasterio, president of Vox in the Community of Madrid.
In addition, Edmundo Bal, deputy spokesperson for the Ciudadanos (Cs) parliamentary group, and Iván Espinosa de los Monteros, deputy secretary of Foreign Affairs and spokesperson for Vox, and the national senator of the PP, Alicia Sánchez Camacho, join this campaign.
Other politicians and parliamentarians from the rest of the world are expected to join this support for political prisoners on the island in the coming days, according to the OCDH.
This campaign emphasizes the more than 620 political prisoners who will spend this Christmas in Cuban prisons, some of them convicted or with prosecutor requests for more than 20 years in prison, for the mere fact of demonstrating peacefully in the historic protests last July. .
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