The organization Prisoners Defenders (PD) released this Wednesday an unpublished video that not only proves the innocence and arbitrary detention of the Cuban-German political prisoner Luis Frómeta Compte, accused of sedition following the protests on July 12 in La Güinera, Havana, but also would exonerate the demonstrators by confirming their innocence.
The material, published on YouTube, clearly shows Frómeta peacefully and politely dialoguing with the police while they were throwing stones and shooting at the frightened peaceful protesters.
In the same protests, as a result of a shot in the back, the young Diubis Laurencio Tejeda died at the hands of the Cuban police sub-lieutenant Yoennis Pelegrín Hernández. PD stated.
The unpublished material that demonstrates the innocence of the La Güinera protesters, as determined by the UN on June 3 through its Working Group WGAD, was on Frómeta's phone, in possession of his daughters in Germany.
The video shows Frómeta holding the camera and adopting a dialoguing and peaceful attitude, trying to explain to the police officers not to throw stones, please, at the protesters, PD pointed out.
In the clip, it also shows the protesters peacefully marching, "except, we can imagine, in very rare exceptions," the organization pointed out. "In any case, it was not Luis' attitude, as is evident from the video."
Finally, it can also be seen that the protesters, including Frómeta, warn that the police are charging at them with stones, which is why the protesters flee in terror.
In the sequence, Frometa takes refuge on the side of the street, near him pass police officers and paramilitaries, "picking up stones from the ground and throwing them at the fleeing protesters, in an act of State Terrorism characteristic of a criminal government."
According to PD, the German government and the European Commission have shown an "incomprehensible" attitude during these three years, as they have not been able to protect a German citizen.
The organization noted that, although the United Nations has denounced the actions of the regime against Frómeta and the protesters, neither the European Union nor the government of Germany classify Miguel Díaz-Canel's mandate as criminal.
This allows Cuba to ignore Frometa's nationality and perpetuate the repression of tens of thousands of protesters and citizens since July 11th and over the past 65 years, pointed out PD.
In 2023, activists and relatives of Frómeta denounced that he was the victim of a brutal beating at the Combinado del Este prison, located in Havana, as a result of which the political prisoner had injuries, including a fractured nasal septum.
Prisoners Defenders explained that the perpetrators of the incident were known and had not received any reprisals from the prison authorities.
Compte was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2022 for alleged sedition, after participating in the demonstration on July 12, 2021 in La Güinera.
They claim that the high sentence, as well as those imposed on other protesters in Güira de Melena, are due to all of them being witnesses to the murder by police officer Yoennis Pelegrín Hernández of 36-year-old protester Diubis Laurencio Tejeda, the only fatal victim of the protests on July 11 and 12, 2021, according to the Cuban regime.
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