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A group of exiled Cubans protested this Thursday in front of the Embassy and Consulate of the Havana regime in Madrid to denounce political repression on the island and demand the release of political prisoner Yosvany Rosell García Caso, who has been on a hunger strike for 35 days.
The demonstration was organized by activists from the Avanna Libre platform, who shared images and videos of the protest on social media, displaying signs, slogans, and stickers with messages against the Cuban dictatorship.
"This morning we stood in front of the consulate and the embassy of the Cuban tyranny in Madrid, accomplices of a country collapsed by the pandemic, epidemics, hunger, and repression," the group stated in a communiqué.
During the action, the demonstrators stuck stickers on the walls and entrances of the diplomatic mission, denouncing alleged violations of data protection laws and political espionage committed by the Cuban missions in Europe.
They also unfurled a flag of Cuba "inside out", a symbol of protest that aims to reveal "the other side of the island that the regime tries to hide from the world."
"Each photo and every second of this video is a direct denunciation of that embassy and that consulate which represent tyranny, not the people of Cuba," stated the organizers, led by activist Avana de la Torre.
The event was dedicated to the political prisoner Yosvany Rosell García Caso, sentenced following the protests of July 11, 2021 and currently on hunger strike for over a month.
According to reports from his family, the activist is in critical condition, showing symptoms of dehydration and kidney damage.
“Yosvany is playing with his own body the only card left to him to denounce the horror of the regime's prisons,” the demonstrators stated.
The activists accused Cuban diplomatic missions of acting as centers for political control and extraterritorial repression, stating that “from these missions, European privacy laws are violated, and state-sponsored terrorism is exported under the guise of diplomacy.”
The shared images display banners with phrases such as "Freedom for the 11J prisoners", "Out with the dictatorship of Cuba", and "Embassy of fear, not of the people".
Protests in front of Cuban embassies in Europe have multiplied, particularly in Spain, Germany, Italy, and the Czech Republic, driven by human rights groups that denounce the situation of political prisoners and the social deterioration on the island.
"We will remain in the streets until the dictatorship falls," assured one of the participants at the end of the protest.
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