EFE (via 14ymedio), Madrid, 15 August 2024 — The NGO Prisoners Defenders (PD) reported on Wednesday that at the end of July it registered 1,119 people imprisoned for political reasons in Cuba, two more than those included in its monthly June report.
The organization, based in Madrid, explained, within the framework of the third anniversary of the anti-government protests on 11 July 2021 (11J), that the Cuban Government deployed “a repressive operation against activists and independent journalists throughout the Island.”
PD cited the case of independent journalist José Luis Tan Estrada, who was arrested on July 5, “interrogated and warned that on July 11 he should refrain from making any publication on his social networks.”
The NGO, which registered three new incarcerations and one release in June, explained that 30 minors are still on the list of prisoners, of which 28 are serving sentences and two are being prosecuted. The minimum criminal age in Cuba is 16 years old. It also stated that 15 of the minors have been convicted of sedition, with an average sentence of five years of deprivation of liberty.
The statement added that 224 people have been accused of sedition
The statement added that 224 people –