The Spanish MEP Raúl de la Hoz Quintano, deputy spokesperson for the People's Party in the European Parliament, reported the case of Jonathan David Muir Burgos, a 16-year-old Cuban teenager imprisoned in a high-security adult facility in Ciego de Ávila for participating in the protests in Morón.
De la Hoz joined the international campaign #SponsorAPoliticalPrisonerOfTheWorld through a video posted on his X account, in which he demanded the immediate release of the minor and described his detention as an injustice of the Castro regime.
"This boy is Jonathan Muir, he is Cuban, and he is 16 years old. And do you know what? He is currently in jail for being considered a dangerous subversive element by the Castro regime," denounced the MEP, in what constitutes the first documented intervention by a member of the European Parliament in the case.
Jonathan was arrested on March 16 along with his father, Pastor Elier Muir, amidst the protests that erupted in Morón following a blackout lasting over 26 hours and food shortages.
The Cuban authorities charged him with the crime of sabotage and ordered his detention in the Canaletas provincial prison, a maximum-security facility, where he remains confined alongside adult inmates.
The family received their first visit on April 13, more than three weeks after his detention. According to his father, the young man is desperate and deteriorating worse each day in the conditions of confinement.
The case has crossed borders and generated international pressure. Mike Hammer, head of mission for the United States Embassy in Cuba, reached out to the family, while the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights requested explanations from the Cuban government regarding the minor's situation.
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