The government granted conditional release to Cuban-American Alina López Miyares, 64, according to an order from the Western Territorial Military Court, dated July 8, to which she had access.CyberCuba.
The military court considered the good behavior in prison, where he taught English classes to other inmates, and the health problems of the civilian López Miyares, who must remain in Cuba until 2030, when her sentence expires, states the judicial order, which establishes the prohibition of issuing a passport in favor of the sanctioned person and her departure from the national territory and warns that the grace measure can be reversed due to misconduct or declaration of dangerousness.
López Miyares married, in 2007, the Cuban diplomat and lieutenant colonel, now in the reserve, of the Intelligence Directorate, Félix Martín Milanés, with diplomatic coverage before the Permanent Mission of Havana at the United Nations, New York.
López Miyares will reside in a rental house in the Vedado neighborhood, despite the fact that in the prison Exit Model, he appears as a resident in San José No. 1010 e/ Espada y Hospital; in Central Havana, reported independent lawyer Edilio Hernández Herrera, coordinator of the NGO Grupo Jurídico de Ayuda Ciudadana, which has been monitoring the case together with Jason I. Poblete, president of the Global Liberty Alliance, based in Washington, United States.
The decision to grant conditional release to López Miyares comes eight months after the Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions of the United Nations Human Rights Council interceded with the Cuban government in favor of the sanction; although Havana rejected the questions about the case, in a letter addressed to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions, in February, from its diplomatic mission to the UN.
The Cuban government's arguments were dismissed by the Citizens' Aid Legal Group, which noted notable legal "breakdowns," such as his trial by a military court; being civil and despite the fact that the crime of espionage must be tried by civil jurisdictions; the soldier having to inhibit himself, in the case of López Miyares.
In 2017, Lopez Miyares was sentenced to 13 years in prison for the crime of espionage in Cuba, after a plan to illegally leave the country for her husband, a former lieutenant colonel in possession of abundant secret information, was discovered, always according to the version of the Cuban authorities, who accused the sanctioned woman of having established links with officials of the United States Intelligence and Counterintelligence services; "circumstances that attorney Herrera does not consider to be reliably proven."
In May, Alina Miyares, mother of the recently released parolee and resident of Miami Beach, described "cruelty"that his daughter remains imprisoned in Cuba.
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