A Cuban farmer is released after 10 months of unjust imprisonment

Oreivys Barrier Eagle, a 46-year-old farmer, whoHe was arrested by the Cuban police at the end of May 2023, was released this Friday after 10 months of unjust imprisonment.

Breaking News: Oreivys Barrera Aguila (El Peje) and Garnier have just been released! They spent around 10 months unjustly imprisoned, without any proof or evidence to support the accusation. A real injustice. Even so, all their rights were violated,” he reported.Yamil Cuéllar Cuéllar, group administratorFacebook 'Mills'.

The arrest of Barrera Águila caused a commotion in Cruces, since he is considered “a farmer who works hard in the fields.” At the time, neighbors attributed the arrest to a new injustice by the authorities.

“He has fallen under the paranoia of the State Security of the municipality of Cruces, province of Cienfuegos,” Cuéllar denounced toCyberCuba after his arrest.

“A beef bone kept in the refrigerator at home; the conspiracy of a relative of the MININT with the intention of appropriating the last harvest that the farmer planted; and an alleged collaboration with the Molinos group”, could be the causes of the man's arrest, according to friends and neighbors.

Cuellar, administrator of the 'Molinos' group (with more than 8,000 members) and complainant in the case, clarified to this editorial team that this third hypothesis was not supported in any way.

“On the third point (the only one I can clarify) I will say the following: Oreivys Barrera Águila is an old friend of my family, a loyal, honest neighbor and completely dedicated to his work in the field. “We have never touched on political issues.”

For the activist, the municipal authorities are taking the “confrontation task” very seriously, which leads them to see conspiracies and leaks of information among the people of Cruz, especially through the group that Cuéllar manages in the United States, a country in which who has resided since 2005.

Barrera Águila could also have been the victim of a relative of his. According to Cuéllar, “the municipality's confrontation leader (a relative of the farmer) had deployed a wave of terror, persecuting any innocent person who raised the slightest suspicion.”

“The people of Cruces immediately demand the release of this innocent peasant, with full guarantee of his life and belongings that with hard work he has taken from the field,” concluded the activist in the complaint sent to this editorial office almost a year ago.

This Monday, Cuéllar sent a big hug to Barrera Águila, and welcomed him to his town celebrating his release. At the time of writing this note, the charges for which this Cuban peasant was deprived of liberty for ten months are unknown.

As for the second released man mentioned in Cuéllar's post, he is the Cuban opponent and architectJesús Fernández Garnier, detained since October 2021 in the Ariza prison, in Cienfuegos, for defending the 'Homeland and Life' issue and collecting signatures in favor of carrying out the peaceful protest of 15N throughout the island.

"The Cuban communist dictatorship, which faces the weight of numerous sanctions for its aberrant and contumacious internal repression against our civil and political rights, will always find, in me and my brothers, firm opponents. We will not spare any efforts nor will they bend us in the most harsh conditions. We continue against thisthe state in which unbearable, brutal and detestable," said Fernández Garnier in a letter sent from prison in January 2022.