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Trans political prisoner sends message from prison: "I'm not going to give up"

Brenda Díaz has a 14-year prison sentence and was found guilty of the crime of contempt, for which she will serve an additional seven months of punishment.

Brenda Díaz, presa desde el 11J © Facebook / Ana Mary García
Brenda Díaz, imprisoned since 11J Photo © Facebook / Ana Mary García

Political prisoner Brenda Díaz, a trans woman on trial for her participation in the peaceful protests of 11J, assured from the men's prison in Güines, Mayabeque, that she will not tire of fighting for the freedom of Cuba.

"I am not going to give up, I am going to continue fighting. They can break my body, but never my spirit. I am not going to give up and I will continue fighting so that Cuba is a free and sovereign country"; he said this week.

Díaz, 28, sent the message shortly before being found guilty of the crime of contempt after confronting a prison officer who referred to her in a derogatory manner, and the 14-year sentence she is serving for demonstrating on 11J, is now They add seven months of deprivation of liberty.

"They are charging me with an alleged crime of contempt that did not exist.. I was simply a victim of psychological, verbal and physical abuse by the management of this place where I am detained," she said.

Ana Mary García, mother of the political prisoner, spoke out on social networks about it and demanded her immediate release.

"It was not enough for them that she is already serving a 14-year sentence, just for thinking differently... Release her now, she is not a murderer," the woman wrote on her Facebook profile.

García had overtakenCyberCuba what the management of the men's prison where his daughter is serving her sentence wanted to prosecute her, after receiving a beating at the hands of a prison official, who also decided to isolate her in a punishment cell.

Hundreds of Cubans remain in jail after the peaceful protests of 11J, all are consideredpolitical prisoners by international organizations and human rights defenders.

However, the official discourse insists on classifying them as common criminals and judged them as such. In the prisons where they are held, they serve long sentences andsome suffer all kinds of abuse, that violate international treaties signed by Cuba.

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