Cuban mother questioned in Villa Marista: “They gave my daughter a piece of paper so she could read everything”

Norma Perez, the mother of the young political prisonerSulmira Martínez Pérez, recorded an audio message explaining that her daughter's self-incrimination video was prepared by State Security, whose officers in Villa Marista gave her a script for her statement.

Last Thursday, Norma visited her daughter in the Guatao prison and told her that “when they interviewed her they gave her a sheet, a piece of paper so she could read everything, everything, everything she had to say.”

This was explained by the mother the next day in an audio broadcast by the Cuban Institute for Freedom of Expression and Press (ICLEP), in which he wanted to make it clear that his daughter was manipulated by the Cuban repressors.

“They even cheated on her. They told her that if she said all that they would release her... and they didn't release her," said Norma, sharing the testimony of her own daughter, who wastransferred to the Guatao women's prison after passingdetained for more than two months in Villa Marista for declaring thatwould go out to demonstrate in the streets.

According to the NGOCubalex, “Sulmira Martínez was arrested on January 10 and taken to Villa Marista, headquarters of State Security, for sharing political memes and expressing her interest in wanting to protest peacefully. On March 17, the young woman was transferred to the Guatao prison.”

Kidnapped in the State Security detention center and subjected to interrogations and pressure, the 21-year-old girl appeared last Thursday, April 13, on the programReasons for Cuba from the official Cuban television, in an embarrassing video of self-incrimination that reveals the degree of intimidation and defenselessness of Martínez Pérez.

"I decided to open an account against the revolutionary process with the name Salem Cuba Censura. I created it because I needed the money," said the young woman whose words, facial expressions and body language revealed the coercion to which she was subjected during her alleged self-incrimination.

Along with the political prisonerDaniel Moreno de la Peña, the young woman was shown on regime television during the broadcast of the program hosted by the presenterHumberto Lopez, renowned spokesperson for counterintelligence and the Cuban dictatorship. Both were associated with the thesis that “foreign agents” finance Cuban activists to “overthrow the revolutionary system.”

At the moment, the charges filed against Martínez Pérez and the reasons argued by the repressors of the Cuban regime for depriving the freedom of a young woman with no criminal record and whose only "crime" would be that of exercising her right to freedom of expression are unknown.

According to the very young political prisoner, she used her networks to publish content against the ruler.Miguel Diaz-Canel, the Communist Party of Cuba and other leaders. In addition, he “confessed” to having exchanged messages with the user identified as Yamila La Hija de Maceo, a profile of a Cuban in exile that the official media considers an important nucleus of subversion.

The profileSalem of Cuba Above all, he shared memes that, with a critical and humorous tone, addressed aspects of Cuban reality and satirized the country's leaders.

However, in mid-August, the young woman's mother claimed that Cuban political police officers threatened her daughter during interrogations and accused her of receiving money from abroad.

"The lawyer tells me that the case is very difficult, that he is going to try to see if they can give him less, because for that crime they can give you four to ten years, he is going to try to get less," commented the woman in mid-February in an interview with the youtuberMarcel Valdes.

Likewise, he assured that his daughter “is firm and wants everything to be reported” and that in El Guatao she finds protection among the other political prisoners. “Salem is the youngest of all and they took a liking to her,” Norma told the independent journalist.Monica Baró.

In Baró's opinion, the young woman could not be tried for propaganda against the constitutional order, but for instigation to commit a crime, a crime frequently used to imprison dissidents, and of which many protestors of the regime were found guilty by the regime's courts.the historic protests of 11J.