#Human muzzle prison trial#
In a phone conversation with José Daniel Ferrer on April 5, 2020, he pointed out that the trial was a farce and took great pride in speaking truth to power: “Even though the regime prohibited me to speak during the trial and rang a bell to shut me up every time I spoke, I stood up to them, challenged their orders and answered back at different moments.
Crucial recorded testimony from the accuser’s wife denouncing how State Security pressured her husband (the accuser) to give false testimony against José Daniel Ferrer - was deliberately excluded by the judge. It has been reported that witnesses for the defense were harassed by state security agents.
Based on eyewitness accounts from relatives who attended, the trial was plagued with gross irregularities. Cuban authorities prevented Amnesty International, the European Union, and the foreign press from attending the trial. Political imprisonment is inmoral and constitute a gross human rights violation.Īt the trial that took place on February 26, 2020, Ferrer and the other three UNPACU activists were convicted of “injuries” and “privation of liberty.” Their conviction and subsequent sentencing - in a nation where the judiciary lacks independence and is subordinated to the interests of the ruling Communist Party - has been called “shameful” by Erika Guevara-Rosas, America’s director at Amnesty International. One of the State Security police in the photo threatened to beat Sayli when the was taken to the police car. PHOTO above of Sayli Navarro arbitrarily/violently arrested in 2013 in Matanzas when the and other courageous Ladies in Whites took to the street amidst a State Security police siege that had lasted for 75 consecutive Sundays. Felix, who was arbitrarily arrested at the time, is now on trial with his daughter and faces fabricated charges of 15 years in prison. The Complaint Center of the Pan American Democracy Foundation reported that on the dictatorship’s authorities began the trial against Sayli Navarro to sentence her to 11 years in prison because on July 12, 2021, she and her father went to the police station to ask about the young people who had disappeared since the protests of the previous day.
Sayli is a Dama de Blanco, a member of the Party for Democracy and founder of the citizens' initiative Cuba Decide. Sayli Navarro, 35 years old, lives alone with her sick mother in Cuba because her father, Felix Navarro, an opposition leader, is a political prisoner. They should be brought to justice and be denied visas in the United States, Canada, the European Union and other democratic nations. This is clear evidence of torture and constitutes ground to include ALIASES Lieutenant Colonel Pineda and Major Julio Fonseca in the Magnitsky List of gross human rights abusers. Audio recording of a phone conversation between José Daniel Ferrer and his wife Nelva Ortega on December 22. The beating took place during visitation time when José Daniel complained over the confiscation of his letters sent to family members by prison officials. Nelva Ortega, his toddler son Daniel José and his daughter Fatima Victoria Ferrer on December 9. IN CUBA, POLITICAL PRISONERS ARE BEATEN & TORTURED.ĪUDIO RECORDING: Testimony of José Daniel Ferrer García, Cuban Prisoner of Conscience denouncing a brutal beating that was inflicted on him by Lieutenant Colonel Pineda, Mar Verde Prison Warden along with Major Julio Fonseca and other thugs in front of his wife, Dr.
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