Cuban opponent sentenced to three years in prison for leagues for stone throwers

The Popular Provincial Court of Havana sentenced the activist and former Cuban political prisoner to three years in prison Luis Andrés Domínguez Sardiñas for the crime of "other acts against the security of the State."

In statements to the news portal Cubanet The convicted man said he was outraged and defended his innocence. He explains that at the trial his lawyer refuted all the arguments presented by the Prosecutor's Office.

The sentence was notified to him last Saturday by his lawyer, who informed him of the possibility of appealing the decision.

It is the sixth time that Domínguez Sardiñas He is sent to prison for political reasons.

This time State Security arrested and opened a case after obtaining information that I would receive a package from abroad with rubber bands to make "stone throwers" and confront the Police, according to the accused himself.

The sentence also affects Jorge Luis Boada Valdés and Johan Carlos Izquierdo Terán, two Cubans prosecuted for allegedly writing "Down with Díaz-Canel" in Havana.

Boada Valdés' arrest occurred for allegedly writing phrases on public roads against the Cuban ruler, Miguel Díaz-Canel, in the Lawton neighborhood, in the capital.

He was sentenced to nine years in prison for the crime of "propaganda against the constitutional order", but acquitted of the charge of "other acts against the security of the State" due to lack of evidence.

Izquierdo Terán, for his part, was sentenced by the court to three years of deprivation of liberty for the crime of "other acts against the security of the State", but he was acquitted of the charge of "enemy propaganda".

He was arrested for allegedly writing "Down with the dictatorship" on a wall, an action that, according to authorities, was intended to "encourage the overthrow of the Cuban social system."

In recent years the graffiti against the government They have been replicated throughout almost the entire island, as a sign of social discontent on the island, plunged into a deep crisis.

In this context, the regime has even threatened to apply "death penalty" to people who "subvert order.