Alexander Fábregas Milanés, who served a sentence for his participation in the protests on July 11, is once again facing harassment from the Cuban regime and will be tried for propaganda against the constitutional order after being 11 days isolated in the State Security (SE) headquarters in Santa Clara.
Marian Prieto Rodríguez, his wife, said on Facebook that Fábregas had to travel to Sancti Spíritus, but upon returning he was detained by the SE in Santa Clara.
In addition, she confirmed that her husband will be put on trial: "They are going to prosecute him for propaganda against the constitutional order. They didn't want to tell me the name of the prosecutor, and they didn't give me any more information. They didn't want to provide me with more details... Only to threaten me," she said about a conversation she had with an official from the political police, as she reported to Martí Noticias.
"Yesterday I went out to see if I could see him, but they wouldn't let me. I asked for his cellphone and they told me no, that the cellphone was seized. They locked me in a room with very cold air conditioning for a good while. Then an officer came in and threatened me, saying that if I continued to report and publish on social media, I would be accused of the same crime," said the wife of the former prisoner, reporting that she also receives constant threats from the SE.
Prieto expressed her distrust in the Cuban judicial system by stating that her husband has a lawyer, but: "That's just for show; here, everyone works in favor of the government.”
Fábregas, 34 years old, served a 9-month prison sentence for the crime of public disorder, an accusation that the regime used to justify his conviction due to a live broadcast he made on Facebook during the protests on July 11 in the city of Sancti Spíritus.
According to Martí Noticias, since he was released from prison, he has received threats from the SE due to the posts he makes on social media.
Last Sunday, the opponents José Antonio Pompa López and Lázaro Mendoza García were sent to prison after spending months arrested at Villa Marista, the SE headquarters in Havana, accused of the crime of “propaganda against the constitutional order.”
The Provincial Prosecutor's Office of Havana imposed a provisional prison measure on both dissidents, reported Martí Noticias, based on testimonies from the families of the detainees.
In the past, the crime of "propaganda against the constitutional order," as outlined in the latest Penal Code, was repudiated by some legal experts.
In its Article 124, it states that those who:
a) incite against the social order, international solidarity, or the socialist state recognized in the Constitution of the Republic, through oral or written propaganda or in any other form.
b) prepare, distribute, or possess propaganda of the aforementioned character.
The crime of propaganda against the constitutional order, recorded in the Cuban Penal Code approved in May 2022, entails sentences of 3 to 10 years in prison.
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