The political prisonerLuis Robles Elizástiguisent a letter from prison in which he expresses the reasons that led him toprotest alone on December 4, 2020 and affirms that he wants “Cuba to be a country for Cubans.”
In the letter, shared byCubanet, the young man reported that he has witnessed “many injustices:evictions, persecution, repressionIn short, violations of human rights that are supposedly protected in our country.”
He assured that these cases go unnoticed by the official media and that is why he has decided to “break the silence.”
In the letter, sent to his brotherLandy Fernández ElizástiguiLast Wednesday, Robles assured that Cuba's greatest enemy is not outside national borders,but he is sitting in the presidential chairand condemned the government for destroying the country, for establishing fear and censorship in society.
He argued that Cubans are afraid to say freely what they think and feel, because in retaliation they can go to jail, as happened with him who, fordemonstrate peacefully on San Rafael Boulevard in Havana He has been locked up for a year and three months. The protest was carried out by a poster asking for freedom, the end of repression andthe release of rapper Denis Solís.
Robles, 29, stated thatwants a nation with streets for everyone and not just for communists, “because I dream of living in a country with democracy, where the people truly have the power to choose their own destiny and not an imposed one,” he added.
In the letter he also explained that it is regrettable that Cubans have to leave the island andrisk your life crossing borders, in search of a better life, because in Cuba it is prohibited. He stated that he regrets seeing the families separated by exile and blamed the dictatorship for promoting confrontation between Cubans, simply because they have different ideological positions.
He noted that he hopes that real change will occur soon, in which the increasingly smaller ruling elite, which decides the future of millions and plays with people's feelings, loses control. Almost at the close of the letter he added that he writes so that “they do not continue to existDenis, Maikel, Alcántara and Luis Robles, imprisoned only for wanting Homeland and Life for Cuba.”
“I have seen a reality in Cuba that for meIt has no other name than DICTATORSHIP. “Freedom for the people of Cuba!” said Robles to finish the emotional letter.
Last December 16The trial against the young Cuban political prisoner took place, who was accused of the crimes of Resistance (article 143 of the Penal Code) and enemy propaganda (article 103). The prosecution requests for him the sentence ofsix years of deprivation of liberty.
After carrying out the criminal process, lThe Cuban justice system has not announced the verdict, so Robles continues to be locked up in the Combinado del Este, where he has been sent to punishment cells on more than five occasions. His brother commented that he was in good health, but that he was emotionally weakened.
Last January, the Non-Governmental Organization Prisoners Defendersdeclared him a prisoner of conscience and denounced the mistreatment he suffered in the prison. Members of civil society have advocated in favor of their freedom,international politicians and institutions such as the Cuban Observatory of Human Rights, Cubalex, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.
He tooUnited Nations Human Rights Council Working Group on Arbitrary Detention He described his arrest as arbitrary, which is why he demanded his release from the Cuban regime.
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