Cuban mother speaks out against military service after her son's detention.

Anisleydis Suria, the mother of the young Sergio Díaz Suria, who was recently imprisoned for refusing to serve in the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR), publicly declared her opposition to Military Service.

The Cuban, residing in Cárdenas, Matanzas, reported on social media that she traveled to Santa Clara to visit her son in prison, and that the prison authorities only allowed her to see him for 30 minutes.

Suria, who had already expressed on her social media her desire to fight for her son's freedom, once again voiced her discontent with the injustice her son faces and publicly declared her opposition to Military Service in Cuba, a country subjected to a totalitarian regime that employs violence against those who oppose the dictatorship and uses army recruits as slave labor under terrible living conditions.

" No to mandatory military service," said Díaz Suria's mother this Saturday on Facebook, in a post where she once again expressed the pain caused by her son's imprisonment due to his objection to military service.

"After four days without hearing from you, we left around four in the morning headed to Santa Clara to see you and know how you were doing. After such a hard journey, they told me that your visit was just half an hour. What an abuse!" complained the prisoner's mother.

In recent years, many young people and family members have expressed their rejection of the FAR recruitments, pointing out the injustices and inequalities that plague the selection process, from which the children of leaders and those connected to the regime "escape."

The tragic events involving teenagers during the mandatory Military Service are becoming increasingly frequent, although in all cases the Cuban government attempts to silence such occurrences.

Numerous reports on social media have highlighted a growing number of deaths of young Cubans related to military service, many of them due to suicide.

The Cuban government denied before the UN that Military Service is compulsory.

In May 2022, thousands of Cubans reacted indignantly on social media when, before the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) at the United Nations, a regime diplomat stated that military service in Cuba was "voluntary."

The statement manipulated the content of the National Defense Law, where the mandatory nature in the case of males is explicitly stated.

In its Chapter VIII, Section Three (Article 77), that law establishes that "male citizens, during the year they turn sixteen years old, are obligated to formalize their registration in the military registry."

The regulations also state that "once registered in the military registry, citizens are obliged to carry out activities aimed at their preparation for incorporation into Military Service and to keep their situation duly updated."

In 2019, Cuban military courts ordered the enforcement of sanctions for military recruits who self-harm to be discharged, a common practice in recent decades, with several regrettable incidents as a consequence.

The mandatory military service has been systematically criticized by Cubans, who even on social media promote campaigns to pressure for the elimination of the requirement.

However, reality indicates that recruitment did not stop even during the coronavirus pandemic, something that was severely criticized by the citizens.