Posted on 04/30/2024 11:04:49 AM PDT by Brilliant
A young mother has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for transmitting videos on Facebook of a protest in Cuba, the latest example of the communist government’s heavy-handed policies to crack down on growing dissent amid worsening economic conditions. Mayelín Rodríguez Prado, 23, was charged with “sedition” and disseminating “enemy propaganda” for publishing videos of a protest in the city of Nuevitas, in the central province of Camaguey, in August 2022. Another 12 demonstrators received sentences between 4 and 14 years in prison under similar charges, according to court documents shared by the Observatorio Cubano de Derechos Humanos, a human rights organization based in Madrid, over the weekend. A year after anti-government protests spread throughout the island on July 11, 2021, the residents of Nuevitas took to the streets again during an electricity blackout, chanting, “Turn on the lights,” “Freedom,” and “The people are tired,” independent news outlet 14ymedio reported...
Shortly after, Rodríguez Prado and other participants were arrested and detained for several months without charges. She is the mother of a toddler and was 21 at the time of her detention. Most of the original videos posted by the Nuevitas demonstrators have been deleted. “The harsh sentencing this week of up to 15 years in prison for Cubans who peacefully assembled in Nuevitas in 2022 is outrageous,” said Brian Nichols, assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere affairs at the U.S. State Department. “The Cuban government’s continued repression of Cubans striving to fulfill their basic rights and needs is unconscionable.” The Cuban government prosecuted hundreds of people, including several mothers, seniors and minors, who participated in the July 11 demonstrations, meting out sentences of up to 30 years in prison. Despite an international outcry and diplomatic efforts, Cuban authorities have declined to release them, claiming they are not political prisoners...
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Wonder if she’d get any sympathy from the student protestors back here? Would not hold my breath though.
They looking for examples?
She will probably get better treatment than our J6 political prisoners of the BeriaGarland GeStasi
Coming to America. Or is it here already?
Governments attract very controlling people.
Just like what those in the U.S. government are attempting to do to Trump and are doing to the J6'ers.
I think that the situation in Cuba has gotten to a point where if there were a little push, the communists would soon flee to Venezuela. I don’t think Biden is the one to give that push though. I think Trump might.
BeriaGarland GeStasi ping!
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